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Introduction: Legal and Ethical Dimensions of AI, NorMAS, and the Web of Data

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AICOL workshops aim to bridge the multiple ways of understanding legal systems and legal reasoning in the field of AI and Law. Moreover, they pay special attention to the complexity of both legal systems and legal studies, on one hand, and the expanding power of the internet and engineering applications, on the other. Along with a fruitful interaction and exchange of methodologies and knowledge between some of the most relevant contributions to AI work on contemporary legal systems, the goal is to integrate such a discussion with legal theory, political philosophy, and empirical legal approaches. More particularly, we focus on four subjects, namely, (i) language and complex systems in law; (ii) ontologies and the representation of legal knowledge; (iii) argumentation and logics; (iv) dialogue and legal multimedia.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See the video entitled “A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence,” available online at https://youtube/-O01G3tSYpU.

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    https://www.computerworld.com/article/2858429/enterprise-applications/2014-the-tech-year-in-cartoons.html#slide5.

  4. 4.

    https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/.

  5. 5.

    Nexxus Partners was established in January 2016 in Texas, USA as a services company for the bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry.

  6. 6.

    “Smart contracts are computer programs that can be correctly executed by a network of mutually distrusting nodes, without the need of an external trusted authority” [20].

  7. 7.

    See the first Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) code to automate organizational governance and decision-making at [19].

  8. 8.

    United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/.

  9. 9.

    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legaldocml/.

  10. 10.

    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=legalcitem.

  11. 11.

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-spinosa-urn-lex/.

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Law and Policy Program of the Australian government funded Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre (http://www.d2dcrc.com.au/); Meta-Rule of Law DER2016-78108-P, Research of Excellence, Spain. This work was also partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690974 “MIREL: MIning and REasoning with Legal texts”.

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Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (2018). Introduction: Legal and Ethical Dimensions of AI, NorMAS, and the Web of Data. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_1

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