Hyperdimensional Modelling of the Legal System in Digital Society
The project aims to develop a legally sound, machine-consumable digital legal framework (HyperModeLex) that integrates AI and law, ensuring efficient legal processes for digital artifacts while preserving democratic principles.
Projectdetails
Introduction
In 2018, the Government of New Zealand started a project called “Rules as Code”. In 2020, it proposed to OECD-OPSI the adoption of coding methodology (see Cracking Code report) to create a macro-schema of Law, legally binding, that generates legal text in natural language.
Methodology
It resembles a reverse engineering approach with respect to the predominant method. It is backed by legal theory and AI&Law literature, where the digitalization of Legal Sources is performed from the legal provisions, expressed in natural language, to its formal-logic representation (AI&Law, LegalXML).
Collaborations
MIT, Stanford CodeX, Australia & Canada governments are investigating this new direction using language programming (e.g., Java, Python).
Context and Challenges
The intuition seems fascinating, especially in the infosphere where digital artefacts (e.g., IoT, smart contract, AI) need consumable Law to take rapid decisions (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic) often without human intervention (e.g., bots).
However, such an approach can jeopardize legal heritage, democratic principles, and institutional foundations, in the context of civil-law theory and EU Law & Human Rights traditions. This approach seems to neglect 30 years of AI&Law literature, legal theory foundations, philosophy of law and language, to foster a model of technocracy and efficiency.
Objectives
As the topic calls for timely actions, we aim to create a solid legal theoretical framework to allow the serialization of Law in machine-consumable format while preserving legal soundness.
Output
The output is a digital legal system framework (HyperModeLex) that produces a traced process of digital law-making system, in machine-consumable format (XML, RDF, coding), legally binding, executable, suitable for connected infosphere artefacts (IoT, smart contract, software, bot) and in the meantime explicable to humans, using a dialogic legal design approach.
Conclusion
We need an interdisciplinary ground-breaking project to assemble various competencies and different disciplines from human and computer sciences.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
Subsidiebedrag | € 2.494.509 |
Totale projectbegroting | € 2.494.509 |
Tijdlijn
Startdatum | 1-10-2022 |
Einddatum | 30-9-2027 |
Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNApenvoerder
Land(en)
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