Callable Precedent Architecture
Victoria Ashworth-Crane, Esq.
LeMay Publishing
WHITEPAPERS
Callable Precedent Architecture
by Victoria Ashworth-Crane, Esq.
Legal10,555 words28 chapters
Published by LeMay Publishing. 10,555 words across 28 chapters.
About This Publication
Whitepaper on making legal precedent computationally callable for AI-assisted legal reasoning.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-5106-1
Chapters
1CALLABLE PRECEDENT ARCHITECTURE
2A Framework for Making Legal Precedent Computationally Accessible to AI-Assisted Legal Reasoning Systems
3TABLE OF CONTENTS
4FOREWORD
5SECTION 1
6THE PROBLEM OF PRECEDENT IN THE COMPUTATIONAL AGE
7SECTION 2
8DEFINING CALLABLE PRECEDENT ARCHITECTURE
9SECTION 3
10THE ANATOMY OF A PRECEDENT OBJECT
11SECTION 4
12HOLDING EXTRACTION AND NORMALIZATION
13SECTION 5
14RATIO DECIDENDI AS CALLABLE FUNCTION
15SECTION 6
16DISTINGUISHING, OVERRULING, AND VERSIONING
17SECTION 7
18THE JURISDICTIONAL GRAPH: AUTHORITY HIERARCHIES AS DATA STRUCTURES
19SECTION 8
20IMPLEMENTATION: FROM SCHEMA TO INFERENCE ENGINE
21SECTION 9
22EPISTEMIC CONSTRAINTS AND THE LIMITS OF FORMALIZATION
23SECTION 10
24ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY CONSIDERATIONS
25SECTION 11
26TOWARD A STANDARD: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION
27REFERENCES
28ABOUT THE AUTHOR