Law and Semantic Web

Representation of regulations using Semantic Web languages

Legal reasoning using standard (DL) reasoners

Issue: “What if two sources say different things?” Specificity (…)

Lex Superior

Temporal Validity(overwrite)

Lex Posterior Applicability to old cases

Authority(implicit)

Lex Superior Jurisdiction

Location (…) Jurisdiction Scope (deeming provision)

Import (documents) References to definitions, not documents

Rinke Hoekstra (VU/UvA) and Saskia van de Ven (UvA)http://www.leibnizcenter.org