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Describing the Development of Case Law

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John Henderson,

Trevor Bench-CaponAuthors Info & Claims

ICAIL '19: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Pages 32 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/3322640.3326697

Published: 17 June 2019 Publication History

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This paper considers dynamic aspects of the development of case law. The underlying approach is to see law as a "moving classification system" based on Levi's notion of a three stage life cycle for case law. Our aim is to provide foundations for computational support for consideration of these dynamic aspects. We first use a fictional example to show how our approach works, and then illustrate the approach by applying it to sequences of real cases: Levi's cases starting from Dixon v Bell, and cases concerning the automobile exception to the US 4th Amendment, focusing on those involving luggage.

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Describing the Development of Case Law
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Fungwacharakorn WSatoh KVerheij B(2024)Constructing and Explaining Case Models: A Case-Based Argumentation PerspectiveNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence10.1007/978-3-031-60511-6_7(100-114)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2024
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Sartor GAraszkiewicz MAtkinson KBex Fvan Engers TFrancesconi EPrakken HSileno GSchilder FWyner ABench-Capon T(2022)Thirty years of Artificial Intelligence and Law: the second decadeArtificial Intelligence and Law10.1007/s10506-022-09326-730:4(521-557)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2022
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