Book Reviews

AI Magazine Volume 9 Number 3 (1988) ( AAAI) The first part of the book is intended to be an introduction to computational jurisprudence for both groups. It identifies issues critical to the purpose, behavior, knowledge sources, knowledge structures, and reasoning processes of expert legal systems. The second part implements a simple prototype system for a well-defined area of contract law and is more appropriate for experienced developers of knowledge-based systems. Law is a domain in which the experts are supposed to disagree, and lawyers must be able to argue either side of a case. A judge or juror must decide which argument is "best."