Agreement and Relational Justice: A Perspective from Philosophy and Sociology of Law

Abstract

Relationships between empirical and philosophical approaches to the law have not been always peaceful. Agreement seems the most natural way to build up and implementing regulations and justice within human-machine interfaces (natural and artificial societies), and might help to bridge the gap between both theoretical approaches. Recent researches on relational law, relational justice, crowdsourcing, regulatory systems and regulatory models are introduced. These concepts need further clarification, but they stand as political companions to more standard conceptions of law in the Semantic Web.

Linked Democracy

“…As we will see later, we understand relational law as the assignment, embodiment and realization of rights within a shared ecosystem; i.e. creating an aggregated value to foster trust and security in the connection between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 (Casanovas 2013).…”

Online Dispute Resolution and Models of Relational Law and Justice: A Table of Ethical Principles

“…Relational justice is a bottom-up justice produced through cooperative behavior, agreement, negotiation or dialogue [12,13]. The standard typology of ODR systems lists automated negotiation, computer assisted negotiation, online mediation and online arbitration [50].…”

Semantic Web Regulatory Models: Why Ethics Matter

“…With the expansion of the Internet into the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things, law and programming have become components of intertwined complex regulatory frameworks. I currently refer to these new frameworks as Relational Law (Casanovas, 2012(Casanovas, , 2013.…”

“…On contextual ontologies, see the results of the EU NeON Project, http://www.neon-project.org . 41 See Casanovas (2009Casanovas ( , 2010Casanovas ( , 20012a, 2012bCasanovas ( , 2013; Casanovas and Poblet (2008 Rodríguez-Dncel et al (2013). the use of ontologies or ODP, but they might follow from SWRM as they must necessarily consider, reckon and anticipate them.…”