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Big Open Legal Data: A BOLD Endeavour
Radboud Winkels Access to and Reuse of
EU Legal Information
Brussel, 21st March 2016
Outline
1. The Context
2. BOLD for Legal Research
3. BOLD for Legal Practice
4. Conclusions & Further Work
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Context
Many sources of law available online
Not all links/metadata machine readable
Not inter-linked
Between types of documents
Cross-jurisdiction
Typically not task or user oriented
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(Open) Legal Data
Lawyers
Public
Admini-
strations
Case law
Legis-
lation Doctrine &
Commenta
ries
Law
Firms
Courts
Acts of
Parliament
The Web of Law
Lawyers
Public
Admini-
strations
Case law
Legis-
lation Doctrine &
Commenta
ries
Law
Firms
Courts
Acts of
Parliament
The Web of Law -2
Lawyers
Public
Admini-
strations
Case law
Legis-
lation Doctrine &
Commenta
ries
Law
Firms
Courts
Acts of
Parliament
The Web of Law -3
Lawyers
Public
Admini-
strations
Case law
Legis-
lation Doctrine &
Commenta
ries
Law
Firms
Courts
Acts of
Parliament
The Web of Law -4
Doctrine &
Commenta
ries
Ministries Companies
Places
Topics
Fields of
Law
Etc. etc. etc.
Acts of
Parliament
Possible Solutions - 1
Human Enrichment (crowd sourcing)
Collections
Processes/lists
Annotations, highlighting
Translations
…
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Case y
Human Enrichment
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Art. xyz
My folder
Immigration Law
Case x
Commentary
prof. XYZ
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Label 1
Label 2
Possible Solutions 2: Automatic Enrichment
Natural Language Processing:
Finding and resolving references/citations
Making metadata explicit
Analysing content of sources of law
= Domain and jurisdiction specific*
Network Analysis:
Finding related sources of law
Determining importance/authority
= Domain and jurisdiction independent
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Case y
Natural Language Processing
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Art. xyz
Case x
Commentary
prof. XYZ Dsdssd sdsd
sdsdvsdv uiiuii
Vsdvsd sdvsdvdv
vds fb gnjuj case z
fgbn gfd
Adsd art. 456 of
law on uiiuii
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vds fb oiuik art.
547 §3
Dsdssd art. xyz
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sdvsdvdv gfd vds
fb gnjuj fngn fgbn
gfd
Art. 456 Sdv fboiefbd fbdbf
dfvbdf dfvbdf law
blabla fdbvry jyuk
kimym uynymy
Fbbd sdsd dsvdfb
76h
Dfbn fdn vds fb
gfn case y fgbn d
dsd. Case z
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Case y
Natural Language Processing
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Art. xyz
Case x
Commentary
prof. XYZ Dsdssd sdsd
sdsdvsdv uiiuii
Vsdvsd sdvsdvdv
vds fb gnjuj case
z fgbn gfd
Adsd art. 456 of
law on uiiuii
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vds fb oiuik art.
547 §3
Dsdssd art. xyz
sdsdvsdv xxyyt
Vsdvsd uiiuii
sdvsdvdv gfd vds
fb gnjuj fngn fgbn
gfd
Art. 456 Sdv fboiefbd fbdbf
dfvbdf dfvbdf law
blabla fdbvry jyuk
kimym uynymy
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76h
Dfbn fdn vds fb
gfn case y fgbn d
dsd. Case z
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dfbdfb
Big Open Legal Data
for Legal Research
1977383
1978418
1979049
1980353 1980489
1981099
1982503
1982504
1982558
1982561
1982562
1982570
1983411
1984146
1984546
19845541984555
1984556
1984764
1985003
1985230
1985351
1985374
1985510
1985545
1985547
1986003
19860051986006
1986037
19865851986588 1986627
1986723
1987037
1987073
1987147
1987227
1987530
1987795
1987957
1988150
1988281
1988654
1988678
1988888
1988956
1989098
1989170
1989700
1989743
1989838
1990055
1990104
19904431990450
1990539
1990628
1990630
1990728
1990767
1991095
1991149
1991325
1991376
1991395
1991475
1991576
1991593
1992021
1992791
1992810
1993560
1993570
1994153
1994229
1994475
1995222
1995391
1996017
1996617 1996640
19966431997215
1998222
1998286
1998693
1999129
19991731999395
1999596
1999646
1999816
2000311
2000654
2001376
2001667
20022702002278
2002366
2002436
2003231
2003492
2003534
2004399
2004618
2005528
2006546
2006600
2008065
2008258
2008275
1978417
1980537
1984439
1984456
BOLD Examples for Legal Research
Legal Prediction (Katz e.a., LexMachina, ...)
BOLD Examples for Legal Research
Legal Prediction (Katz e.a., LexMachina, ...)
Life cycle of overruled Supreme Court
precedent
BOLD Examples for Legal Research
Legal Prediction (Katz e.a., LexMachina, ...)
Life cycle of overruled Supreme Court
precedent
Impact ECJ rulings on parliamentary debate
Link EP proceedings to ECJ data from EUR-lex
BOLD Examples for Legal Research
Legal Prediction (Katz e.a., LexMachina, ...)
Life cycle of overruled Supreme Court
precedent
Impact ECJ rulings on parliamentary debate
Relation between fundamental rights and
the rule of law
Finding most authoritative cases
Finding best expert in legal field x
Finding problematic law articles
...
Big Open Legal Data
for Legal Practice
1977383
1978418
1979049
1980353 1980489
1981099
1982503
1982504
1982558
1982561
1982562
1982570
1983411
1984146
1984546
19845541984555
1984556
1984764
1985003
1985230
1985351
1985374
1985510
1985545
1985547
1986003
19860051986006
1986037
19865851986588 1986627
1986723
1987037
1987073
1987147
1987227
1987530
1987795
1987957
1988150
1988281
1988654
1988678
1988888
1988956
1989098
1989170
1989700
1989743
1989838
1990055
1990104
19904431990450
1990539
1990628
1990630
1990728
1990767
1991095
1991149
1991325
1991376
1991395
1991475
1991576
1991593
1992021
1992791
1992810
1993560
1993570
1994153
1994229
1994475
1995222
1995391
1996017
1996617 1996640
19966431997215
1998222
1998286
1998693
1999129
19991731999395
1999596
1999646
1999816
2000311
2000654
2001376
2001667
20022702002278
2002366
2002436
2003231
2003492
2003534
2004399
2004618
2005528
2006546
2006600
2008065
2008258
2008275
1978417
1980537
1984439
1984456
co-funded by the European Union
OpenLaws.eu Project
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User Interface
Open Data Interface
Open Data Importer
EUR-LEX UK AT-RIS NL ….
Co
mm
un
ity
BOLD Conclusions
Opening up and Linking Legal Data very useful
for both RESEARCH and PRACTICE
OpenLaws.eu already offers:
Integration of Open Legal Data
Enriched Legal Data:
Social enrichment enabled
Automatic enrichment to some extent
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BOLD Vision 2020
More Open Legal Data
More users
NLP for other languages
More user evaluations
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Questions or Suggestions
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