Right and Honourable Computer - Law

European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that incorporates artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law. Since European law is complex with intellectual property right (IPR) and digital rights regulation seeking a method to combat piracy, the ALIS project has developed in response.

Game theory looks at how strategic interactions between rational people leading to outcomes reflecting on a person's preferences. These types of interactions are rendered mathematically and developed into algorithms. The tool aims to speed up the work done by lawyers and help resolve more straightfoward cases faster.

Reference: Science Daily

Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled

The methods that the courts of law use to identify authorship of text can be fooled according researchers. Non-proffesional writeres can hide their identity from 'stylometric techniques' by writing in the style of novelist Cormac McCarthy.

Reference: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17639-writing-style-fingerprint-tool-easily-fooled.html