A history of AI and Law in 50 papers: 25 years of the international conference on AI and Law

HYPO’S legacy: introduction to the virtual special issue

“…Thus while the statutes can be represented using rules, much in the manner of Sergot et al (1986), when ''the rules run out'' (Gardner 1987), it is necessary to use case based techniques. The process is well explained by Ron Loui in his commentary on Skalak and Rissland (1991) in Bench-Capon et al (2012). In this way the rules are able to focus the search and partition the case base so that there are fewer irrelevant distinctions made during the response (and the case base can provide precedents that govern more cases, since differences which relate to terms not at issue are not considered).…”

“…It may be preferable to allow an analyst to represent the case in terms of dimensions and factors rather than attempt to enable their derivation from the brute facts. There is a degree of trade off here: see also Ashley (2009) and the commentary on it by Thorne McCarty in Bench-Capon et al (2012). The use of dimensions can also be used to generate case narratives, as described in Bench-Capon and Bex (2015), using methods akin to the scripts of Schank and Abelson (1977).…”

Special issue in memory of Carole Hafner: editor’s introduction

“…A discussion of Hafner (1987) by Adam Wyner is included in Bench-Capon et al (2012). At Northeastern Carole began to work with Don Berman and the next phase of her work was carried out with Don, and focused on the exploration of reasoning with legal cases.…”

Detecting tax evasion: a co-evolutionary approach

“…The field of AI and law (Sartor and Rotolo 2013;Bench-Capon et al 2012) deals with simulation of norms and their emergence (Aubert and Müller 2013;Dechesne et al 2013;Lotzmann et al 2013). Pioneering work regarding taxes occurs in ''Taxman'' (McCarty 1977) and more recently in tax non-compliance modeling of real estate policy (Boer and Engers 2013).…”