Dual Textuality of Law
This paper treats legal informatics as a scientific bridge between law and legal documentation. Ten layers are distinguished in the realm of law, e.g., phrase, sentence, sentence formation, and legal act. Four kinds of representation are distinguished in legal documentation (a document representation, a syntactic one, a semantic one, and a pragmatic one). A granularity question is discussed: what is the smallest entity – a document, a sentence or a word? Different software systems are built within each layer. Such applications link different layers of law with different representations.
Table of contents
- 1. Textuality of Law
- 2. Legal Informatics – a Bridge from Law to its Representation
- 3. Schweighofer’s 8 Views/4 Methods/4 Syntheses Approach
- 4. References