MCCARTY@RUTGERS.ARPA (03/30/84)
I saw your query in the recent AILIST Digest. Are you familiar with the
TAXMAN project at Rutgers? Strictly speaking, this is not a "judicial expert
system," since our goal at the present time is not to build a large practical
system for use by lawyers. Instead, we are exploring a number of theoretical
issues about the representation of legal rules and legal concepts, and the
process of legal reasoning and legal argumentation. We believe that this
is an essential step for the construction of sophisticated expert systems
for lawyers in the future. Some recent references:
McCarty, L.T., "Permissions and Obligations," IJCAI-83, pp. 287-294.
McCarty, L.T., and Sridharan, N.S., "The Representation of an Evolving
System of Legal Concepts: II. Prototypes and Deformations," IJCAI-81,
pp. 246-253.
McCarty, L.T., and Sridharan, N.S., "A Computational Theory of Legal
Argument," Technical Report LRP-TR-13, Laboratory for Computer
Science Research, Rutgers University (1982).
McCarty, L.T., "Intelligent Legal Information Systems: Problems and
Prospects," Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, Vol. 9,
No. 2, pp. 265-294 (1983).
This latter article articulates some of our ideas about practical systems,
and discusses several related projects by other researchers.
Thorne McCarty