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From e-business to e-laws and e-judgments: 4,000 years of experience

Authors:
Luigi Logrippo

Keywords: cyberlaws; electronic commerce; electronic laws; electronic judgments; electronic courts; electronic enforcement; legal ontologies; completeness of law; consistency of law

Abstract:
Rapid e-transactions are possible today in many areas of application, which creates a need for rapid resolution of conflictual situations potentially deriving from the performance of these transactions. This will lead to the development of e-laws, e-regulations, e-judgments, and e-enforcement, to be quickly and automatically executed when conflictual situations occur. Examples of possible application of these ideas are found in cloud computing, privacy, security, e-business.It is shown that some principles for the implementation of these ideas can be found in the history of law, starting from very ancient legal systems that looked like sets of logic axioms or computer programs, reflecting the will of the legislator to tightly control the judicial authorities. The role of ontologies for creating complex legal systems,useful to formalize e-laws, is discussed. Principles of consistency and completeness of legal systems are briefly presented. The relevance of Artificial Intelligence methods for e-judgments is briefly evaluated. The principles presented in this work have potential for application in future automated cyberlaws contexts.

Pages: 22 to 28

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-122-9

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011