Legal reasoning analysis methodology and device

A method for creating a legal map depicting legal reasoning for determining a law, the method comprising:

• presenting an objective of the law;
• determining an initial law to represent the objective and depicting the initial law at a first position of a triangle;
• presenting an image that does not fit in with the objective, as represented by the initial law, and depicting the image that does not fit in at a second position of the triangle;
• and
• deriving a second law that addresses the image that does not fit in with the objective and depicting the second law at a third position of the triangle.

A computer readable medium for storing a computer program that enables analysis of legal reasoning to derive a law relating to an objective, the computer readable medium comprising:

• a receiving source code segment that receives the objective of the law and an initial law proposed to achieve the objective;
• and
• a presenting source code segment that presents an image that does not fit in with the objective as indicated by the initial law;
• the receiving source code segment receiving a second law, derived from the initial law, that accounts for the image that does not fit in.

A system for analyzing legal reasoning for determining a law, the system comprising:

• a central processing unit that runs a computer program for the legal reasoning analysis;
• and
• a server connected to the central processing unit, the server being accessible by a plurality of user terminals via a packet switched data network;
• the central processing unit presenting an objective of the law to the plurality of user terminals via the server and receiving an initial law relating to the legislative objective;
• the central processing unit receiving a proposed image that does not fit in with the objective, as indicated by the initial law, and presenting the proposed image that does not fit in to the plurality of user terminals via the server;
• the central processing unit receiving votes from the plurality of user terminals and, based on the votes, determining whether a predetermined number of the plurality of participants agree that the proposed image that does not fit in comprises an actual image that does not fit in with the objective, as indicated by the initial law;
• and
• when the central processing unit determines that a majority of the plurality of participants agree that the proposed image that does not fit in comprises the actual image that does not fit, the central processing unit receiving a second law, derived from the initial law, that addresses the actual image that does not fit in.

A method for analyzing legal reasoning for deriving a final law, the method comprising:

• determining an objective of the final law;
• determining an initial law corresponding to the objective;
• consecutively presenting a plurality of scenarios that potentially obstruct the objective;
• for each of the plurality of scenarios that potentially obstructs the objective, consecutively determining a corresponding plurality of revised laws that remove the potential obstructions;
• and
• identifying a last revised law of the consecutively determined plurality of revised laws as the final law.