Published as part of the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems – JURIX 2022. Editors: Enrico Francesconi, Georg Borges, Christoph Sorge Authors: Tim van den Belt and Henry Prakken The paper can be downloaded here on this website or from IOS Press.

Abstract:

For legislation to be effective, it should not be too complex; otherwise, it cannot be sufficiently understood by those who have to apply the law or comply with it. This paper adds to the research in AI & law on developing precise mathematical complexity measures for legislation and applying these measures by computational means. The framework of Katz & Bommarito (2014) is applied to measure the complexity of Dutch legislation. The aim is twofold: first, to investigate whether this framework is meaningfully more widely applicable by applying it to a different jurisdiction and a corpus of larger size; and second, to identify possible improvements to the framework.

DOI: 10.3233/FAIA220475

Paving A Path To Simplify Legislation Using AI

An emperical complexity analysis of the Dutch legislation

Thesis was part of the master IT-Law at the University of Groningen.

Thesis can be downloaded here.