Abstract
This paper concerns the legal system and legal documentation systems, as well as their interconnectedness and introduces the idea of legal sublevels. Examples of legal sublevels are legal terms, ontologies, annotations, commentaries, etc. A sublevel is treated as a representation level of the legal domain. In terms of software engineering, a sublevel can be defined as a level of infrastructural services for several domains. This paper is a kind of exploratory research; an abstract theory is being developed. A key question is “What are the sublevels in law and legal informatics?” We also examine the concept of view and project the core and peripheral areas around the legal system onto Schweighofer’s 8 views/4 methods/4 syntheses model. We link the idea of sublevel with the notion of view.
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“Econometrics, for example, attempts to transform economic science into a more ‘rigorous’ and hence more ‘scientific’ discipline by mathematical means.” Van Hoecke and Ost (1993).
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“The “separation of concerns” principle is realized by the concept of views. …The separation of concerns principle refers to the description of different characteristics of a software system that may or may not relate to the later execution of those systems. The principle will be applied in the division of complex description of even small portions of software into hopefully better understanding partial descriptions – that we call views – that must later be superimposed to form a complete description.” (Goedicke 1990, p. 5).
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West’s Key Number System: http://info.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/pdf/wln2/L-374484.pdf . This is a classification system for American law.
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Access to European Union law, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/.
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Čyras, V., Lachmayer, F., Schweighofer, E. (2016). Views to Legal Information Systems and Legal Sublevels. In: Dregvaite, G., Damasevicius, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 639. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46254-7_2
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