D1.1 Legal Theory Framework. Computational and AI Models. Title: Report on AI in Parliamentary Context (Constitutional Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal Informatics) Abstract. The report maps and analyses the current uses of AI in parliamentary contexts worldwide to address an undertheorized area in AI and law scholarship. Current use cases are examined in light of established principles of legal and constitutional theory. The integration of AI applications within parliamentary processes could undermine the concept of law underlying democracy and the rule of law, as well as infringe upon key constitutional principles. The analysis shows that, even though most current uses of AI are purely assistive, parliaments need to act promptly to address potential risks to constitutional principles. They should also take legal theory constraints seriously for future, more robust AI implementations by adopting technical frameworks capable of integrating foundational concepts from legal theory. Approaches like hybrid AI—rather than methodologies like Rule-as-Code (RaC) or Law-as-Code (LaC)—could offer a more nuanced and theoretically sound basis for digitizing legal systems.
D2.1 AI/ML models and NLP models for extracting legal knowledge from the text. D2.3 Generation of legal text from the partial incomplete inputs in a dialogic interaction with the legal expert. (Legal Informatics, Computational Linguistic) Abstract. The subject of this technical report is the discussion of our progress in creating tools to aid the legislative process in the context of European institutions and European Member States. The legislative process is a complex task, which involves a multitude of goals that need to be addressed before and during the drafting and discussion of any piece of legislation. Typically, one of the more demanding aspects is the discovery of existing regulation on a given subject, which in the case of a European country involves an examination of documents from a multitude of institutions: the existing national legislation, European legislation, the constitution and judgments from the national Constitutional Court or equivalent institutions.
D2.5 Prototypes applied to two use-cases.
Heterogeneous databases in AKN with AI advanced tool for searching relevant norms using definitions, normative references, and similarity.
XR4LAW is an innovative project included in the ERC project HyperModeLex that aims to investigate a new methodology of work of parliamentarians through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies. XR4LAW creates a Virtual Dashboard, with the goal of integrating legislative work into the metaverse. The bidimensional metaphor used for navigating the legislative documentation is limited considering the complexity of the material that a member of parliament should navigate and search. For this reason, the current project intends to provide an immersive environment where to find relevant documents using an easy human-computer interaction interface. The application is connected to the eXist-db database, where all legislative documents are available in XML format using the Akoma Ntoso OASIS XML standard applied to the European legislation. The primary goal is to develop an ergonomic and intuitive user interface that capitalizes on MR’s capabilities, such as real-world visibility and utilizing physical spaces to overlay virtual elements. This immersive environment empowers end-users to explore and analyze legal documents in a whole new way, improving the accessibility and efficiency of parliamentary work.
