Legal linked data ecosystems and the rule of law

This chapter introduces the notions of meta-rule of law and socio-legal ecosystems to both foster and regulate linked democracy. It explores the way of stimulating innovative regulations and building a regulatory quadrant for the rule of law. The chapter summarises briefly (i) the notions of respons...

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Authors: Poblet, Marta|||0000-0002-0026-989X, Casanovas, Pompeu|||0000-0002-0980-2371, Rodríguez-Doncel, Víctor|||0000-0001-5770-0882
Format: book part
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:243425
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243425
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13363-4_5
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Web of data
Socio-legal ecosystem
Rule of law
Meta-rule of law
Semantic languages
Governance
Linked democracy
Semantic web regulatory models
Regulatory quadrant
Legal validity
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Summary:This chapter introduces the notions of meta-rule of law and socio-legal ecosystems to both foster and regulate linked democracy. It explores the way of stimulating innovative regulations and building a regulatory quadrant for the rule of law. The chapter summarises briefly (i) the notions of responsive, better and smart regulation; (ii) requirements for legal interchange languages (legal interoperability); (iii) and cognitive ecology approaches. It shows how the protections of the substantive rule of law can be embedded into the semantic languages of the web of data and reflects on the conditions that make possible their enactment and implementation as a socio-legal ecosystem. The chapter suggests in the end a reusable multi-levelled meta-model and four notions of legal validity: positive, composite, formal, and ecological.