This project aims to take the challenge of coding of the law (also with non-textual forms) to build a solid constitutionally based legal framework supported by philosophy of law theory, legal-informatics and legal language foundations, which makes legally effective the machine-computable Law produced directly by Institutions. The most visible risk is that if not supported by solid theoretical scientific methodology, new e-legal system models based on the coding could be a new black-box not explainable to the common end-user. To tackle such risk, this project aims to frame SLOTS in the key theoretical disciplines of law. The project thus covers the following fields:
1. Constitutional and parliamentary law, with the aim of understanding the reach and the limits in the machine-consumable law;
2. Philosophy of law analysis including the interpretation and epistemic elements, to define the relationship between natural language and algorithmic law;
3. Legal informatics prototypes to represent the norms in defensibility logic and temporal legal reasoning, using also NLP tools for extracting legal knowledge from the text;
4. Computer science prototypes to exploit AI, LegalXML, Legal design to support lawmaking process.
Name of the Principal Investigator (PI): Monica Palmirani
Name of the PI's host institution for the project: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (UNIBO)
Proposal duration in months: 24 months. Starting date 28/9/2023 - Ending date 28/9/2025
Financing: 290.154 Euro
