A Taxonomy for Modelling Discretionary Decision Making in the Legal Domain
Schild, Uri J and Zeleznikow, John ORCID: 0000-0002-8786-2644
(2005)
A Taxonomy for Modelling Discretionary Decision Making in the Legal Domain.
In:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.
ACM Press, pp. 60-64.
Abstract
In attempting to model how legal discretion is exercised, we have previously discussed the notion of open texture and introduced the notion of boundedness of legal domains. Through a series of case studies we have noticed that an important factor has been overlooked: namely whether the decisions made in a given domain are binary. We develop a set of three criteria for computer modeling of legal discretion and discuss the eight octants that arise from the three-dimensional space formed by these criteria.