“Computational Law as an Engineering Discipline” published in Recht Innovative 01/2019
https://rechtinnovativ.online/ri-01-2019-churilov-computational-law
Computational law: research discipline and a group of knowledge-centric technologies to support law and jurisprudence, with the following objectives:
- enable representation of legal and other relevant domain knowledge as Turing computable functions;
- enable analysis, algorithmic inference, and synthesis of legal knowledge;
- enable interpretable, actionable output in a form suitable for use by humans or machines.
Purpose: automated management of life cycle of actionable legal knowledge to support social practices.
This definition encompasses the following systemic categories:
- the target system: actionable legal knowledge
- the class of using systems: jurisprudence or any other social activity requiring legal support
- the enabling system: domain specific facility to perform input, processing and output of legal knowledge
English version: https://anticomplexity.org/computational-law-as-an-engineering-discipline/
Russian version: http://anticomplexity.org/opredelenie-vychislitelnogo-prava-kak-inzhenernoj-distsipliny/