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53Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2011.This handbook offers a deep analysis of the main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation from both a logical-philosophical and legal perspective. These forms are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and the handbook accordingly divides in three parts: the first one introduces and discusses the basic concepts of practical reasoning. The second one discusses the main general forms of reasoning and argumentation relevant for legal discourse. The third one looks at their application in …Read more
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75Towards a financial fraud ontology: A legal modelling approach (review)Artificial Intelligence and Law 12 (4): 419-446. 2004.This document discusses the status of research on detection and prevention of financial fraud undertaken as part of the IST European Commission funded FF POIROT (Financial Fraud Prevention Oriented Information Resources Using Ontology Technology) project. A first task has been the specification of the user requirements that define the functionality of the financial fraud ontology to be designed by the FF POIROT partners. It is claimed here that modeling fraudulent activity involves a mixture of …Read more
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9The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contextsBig Data and Society 8 (1). 2021.How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing upon valuation studies, we reflect on both the theory and practicalities of using mass-digitised heritage content as an economic driver, stressing the need to consider the complexity of commercial-based outcomes within the context of cultural and creat…Read more
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7Big Browser Manning the Thin Blue Line - Computational Legal Theory Meets Law EnforcementProblema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (2): 51-84. 2008.This paper analyses some current jurisprudential and conceptual issues in evidence and procedure from the perspective of a computational legal theory. It introduces a specific investigative device, Trojans operated by police during crime investigation, and analyses whether current formal approaches to legal reasoning can be modified in such a way that the software code underlying this device can represent the relevant legal constraints that should govern its operation. We will argue that traditi…Read more
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504AI4People—an ethical framework for a good AI society: opportunities, risks, principles, and recommendationsMinds and Machines 28 (4): 689-707. 2018.This article reports the findings of AI4People, an Atomium—EISMD initiative designed to lay the foundations for a “Good AI Society”. We introduce the core opportunities and risks of AI for society; present a synthesis of five ethical principles that should undergird its development and adoption; and offer 20 concrete recommendations—to assess, to develop, to incentivise, and to support good AI—which in some cases may be undertaken directly by national or supranational policy makers, while in oth…Read more
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274Key ethical challenges in the European Medical Information FrameworkMinds and Machines 29 (3): 355-371. 2019.The European Medical Information Framework project, funded through the IMI programme, has designed and implemented a federated platform to connect health data from a variety of sources across Europe, to facilitate large scale clinical and life sciences research. It enables approved users to analyse securely multiple, diverse, data via a single portal, thereby mediating research opportunities across a large quantity of research data. EMIF developed a code of practice to ensure the privacy protect…Read more
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45Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligenceBig Data and Society 4 (2). 2017.We are living in an algorithmic age where mathematics and computer science are coming together in powerful new ways to influence, shape and guide our behaviour and the governance of our societies. As these algorithmic governance structures proliferate, it is vital that we ensure their effectiveness and legitimacy. That is, we need to ensure that they are an effective means for achieving a legitimate policy goal that are also procedurally fair, open and unbiased. But how can we ensure that algori…Read more
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13D-waste: Data disposal as challenge for waste management in the Internet of ThingsInternational Review of Information Ethics 22 101-107. 2014.Proliferation of data processing and data storage devices in the Internet of Things poses significant privacy risks. At the same time, faster and faster use-cycles and obsolescence of devices with electronic components causes environmental problems. Some of the solutions to the environmental challenges of e-waste include mandatory recycling schemes as well as informal second hand markets. However, the data security and privacy implications of these green policies are as yet badly understood. Thi…Read more
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9Inductive, Abductive and Probabilistic ReasoningIn Colin Aitken, Amalia Amaya, Kevin D. Ashley, Carla Bagnoli, Giorgio Bongiovanni, Bartosz Brożek, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Samuele Chilovi, Marcello Di Bello, Jaap Hage, Kenneth Einar Himma, Lewis A. Kornhauser, Emiliano Lorini, Fabrizio Macagno, Andrei Marmor, J. J. Moreso, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor, Burkhard Schafer, Chiara Valentini, Bart Verheij, Douglas Walton & Wojciech Załuski (eds.), Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation, Springer Verlag. pp. 275-313. 2011.The chapter traces the co-evolution of probability theory and inductive reasoning in the sciences and the law, from the early beginnings in the eighteenth century to problems in contemporary discussions on how to interpret and quantify DNA evidence. In addition to being a useful technique for what? ‘The adminstration of criminal justice’? I have never thought of philosophy and epistemology as being ‘techniques’, the philosophical and epistemological context also casts light on the “quest for cer…Read more
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10Unberühmter Ort: die Ruderalfläche im magischen Realismus und in der TrümmerliteraturPeter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. 2001.Ruderalflächen (von lat. rudus: Schutt, Trümmer) sind Sekundärwildnisse wie zum Beispiel Wegränder, Bahndämme, Ödplätze und stillgelegte Industrieanlagen. Solche und ähnliche Unberühmte Orte beginnen sich um 1919 in der Literatur des Magischen Realismus bei 'unberühmten' AutorInnen wie zum Beispiel Oskar Loerke, Wilhelm Lehmann und Elisabeth Langgässer herauszubilden. Die Trümmerliteratur nach 1945 (Heinrich Böll, Günter Eich etc.) hat diese Topographien beerbt und radikalisiert. In der Literatu…Read more
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31" I am Spartacus"–privacy enhancing technologies and privacy as a public goodArtificial Intelligence and Law. forthcoming.
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31Form follows function fails - as a sociological foundation of comparative lawSocial Epistemology 13 (2). 1999.This Article does not have an abstract
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24International Commentary on Evidence, 2006 Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1-47 . [link to online version posted].
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21“I am Spartacus”: privacy enhancing technologies, collaborative obfuscation and privacy as a public goodArtificial Intelligence and Law 22 (2): 113-139. 2014.The paper introduces an approach to privacy enhancing technologies that sees privacy not merely as an individual right, but as a public good. This idea finds its correspondence in our approach to privacy protection through obfuscation, where everybody in a group takes a small privacy risk to protect the anonymity of fellow group members. We show how these ideas can be computationally realised in an Investigative Data Acquisition Platform. IDAP is an efficient symmetric Private Information Retrie…Read more
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25Leśniewski-quantifiers and modal arguments in legal discourseLogic and Logical Philosophy 6 (n/a): 133. 1998.Following an idea first proposed by Jerzy Wróblewski, this paperexamines the usefulness of formal logic for comparative legal analysis. Subject of the comparison are the doctrines of mistake and attempt in Germanand English criminal law. These doctrines are distinguished by the interaction of deontic, epistemic and alethic modalities. I propose a purely extensional logic which is based on Leśniewski’s substitutional interpretation ofquantification to analyse differences in the logical structure of …Read more
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20Interagency data exchange, privacy protection and governance architecture for Information sharing across domainsArtificial Intelligence and Law. forthcoming.
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49A fourth law of robotics? Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-productionArtificial Intelligence and Law 23 (3): 217-240. 2015.Jon Bing was not only a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and law and the legal regulation of technology. He was also an accomplished author of fiction, with an oeuvre spanning from short stories and novels to theatre plays and even an opera. As reality catches up with the imagination of science fiction writers who have anticipated a world shared by humans and non-human intelligences of their creation, some of the copyright issues he has discussed in his academic capacity take on n…Read more
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1Twelve angry men or one good woman? Asymmetric relations in evidentiary reasoningIn Hendrik Kaptein (ed.), Legal Evidence and Proof: Statistics, Stories, Logic, Ashgate. 2008.
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Law’s Fictions, Legal Fictions and Copyright LawIn William Twining & Maksymilian Del Mar (eds.), Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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23Emerging Legal Orders. Formalism and the Theory of Legal IntegrationRatio Juris 16 (4): 486-505. 2003.