Ontologies in the legal domain
pp. 265-276
in: Roberto Poli, Johanna Seibt (eds), Theory and applications of ontology, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
"Legal ontology' is the common denominator for a varying set of models focusing on legal domains, their "environments', legal argumentation and other legal and legally relevant phenomena. Their nature and classification are explained in this article. The main classification is along the lines of semantic, epistemic and ontological claims in the ontologies.