Legal Information and the Web Jon Bing Norwegian

Legal Information and the Web Jon Bing Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Legal information institutes Also legal information wants to be free -the reaction to the closed commercial systems in the 1990 s NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Westlaw – Thompson International NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Lexis-Nexis – Reed Elsevier NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Legal Information Institute (1992) NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Devon Zastrow, Thomas Bruce, Michael Galliganand Peter Martin, NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Professor Graham Greenleaf, University of New South Wales (Sydney) NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

European LII NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Aust. LII – with Google toolbar NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Legal information – a public service on the Web NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Lovdata A public service on the Web NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Globalisation of legal information Attempting to create an international legal community -“World Peace through Law”? NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

EUR-Lex NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Library of Congress Global Legal Information Network NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Searching the legal world NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Legislative information systems vs Systems for legal research which again comes in two flavours Systems for professional users vs Systems for the general public NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

New interfaces and functions Current legal information systems are generally systems of the 1970 s behind a facade of web design NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Example MS-DOS user interface Database: CLX 3 ----CLass search (ON) SYnonyms (ON) TRuncation (ON) Press carriage return to end search request GROUP 1 = copyright*, license* PROCESSING the word COPYRIGHT* PROCESSING the word LICENSE* *** RETRIEVAL IN PROGRESS *** Your search includes 1: (COPYRIGHT*, LICENSE*) ******** RESULT ******* 7 documents found in database: CLX 3 ********************* Do you want to (1) continue (2) read the documents NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Typical Web user interface NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Typical Web user interface NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Expert judgement on domicile – relevant factual circumstances Actual residence Duration Place of work Home and family Concentration of estate Citizenship Decision by foreign authority Relations by public law Self declaration NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

The first decision on the widow Brandt NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

Graphical representation – hyperstructures (statutes, cases etc) NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)

New possibilities Mark-up languages Computational linguistics – tagging Knowledge based methods Modest semantic representation Intergration with justice administrative systems NRCCL (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law)