1. I have been asked to speak at this sixth international JURIX conference on its first sub theme, "Intelligent tools for drafting legislation", drawing on both my own experience and government policy in the field. I will explore the possibilities and limitations of using intelligent

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detailed brief on the draft legislation and we limited our oral presentation to three areas: our support for the establishment of a regulatory body and our recommendation for a shared model of governance; our expertise in the establishment of standards of practice and the development of evidence

We present an approach to the development of intelligent drafting tools where the drafter is offered a ladder of incremental steps in formalization and application of LKBS techniques, each step enabling a new kind of check on the draft. We describe what benefits the drafter will gain at each step

In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative effects of a new regulation. We will discuss mechanisms that can be used to generate different paraphrases of regulations

In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative effects of a new regulation. We will discuss mechanisms that can be used to generate different paraphrases of regulations automatically

; Kodratoff 1990)). The algorithms can be tailored to generate legislative drafts that satisfy desired properties through four parameters (cf. (Winkels & den Haan 1995)): the normative default (prescriptive/prohibitive), deontic default (strictly O,F , or P , or indifferent), the level of abstraction

Abstract. In this paper a model-driven module able to guide the legislative drafter in planning a new bill is presented. This module aims at helping the legislative drafter to build a new act from a conceptual point of view. Using this module the classical drafting process is inverted

tri-state legislative body; the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, which represents the federal government; and participating citizen advisory groups. In 1996, the Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Chesapeake Bay Program’s “Strategy for Increasing Basin-wide Public Access to Chesapeake Bay

This contribution reports on a still ongoing research concerning a legislative drafting system named SOLON. 1 The system is developed at the