Between Science and the Technique of Law. Towards a Telematics Hermeneutic?

Abstract

The relationship between computer science and law is ever closer. The evolution has been notable: from the legal computer document, which has facilitated on numerous occasions the obtaining of complete legal information in a short time, we have pass to a managerial legal computer science, which every day advances the liberation of the jurist from the most routine tasks. In this way computerized decision-making has arrived with a more promising future. But also, as a counterpart, this is the most susceptible sphere which provokes reserve.

Concretely, we are going to pay special attention to the projection of the new technologies in the judicial decisions, both in the aspects of Artificial Intelligence as in that of Expert Legal Systems. It is a controversial area, since at present it is neither possible, nor desirable, to overturn the judicial reasoning of the judge or of the lawyer for the computer calculation. All this projects a new line of reflection for legal philosophy, since it is the hermeneutic telematics.