Providing computer scientific base and implementation for legislative methodology based on e-Legislation

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24240040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: KAKUTA Tokuyasu 名古屋大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 特任教授 (80292001)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MATSUURA Yoshiharu 名古屋大学, 法学研究科, 特任教授 (40104830) ; TOYAMA Katsuhiko 名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (70217561) ; OGAWA Yasuhiro 名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (70332707)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 法律情報 / 条例データベース / 法制執務 / 立法過程 / 自治体法務

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We studied the methodology of e-Legislation and provided our legislative supporting system based on it. As a result, we have developed and provided a database system of regulations, and is used in about half of the municipalities in Japan. Thereby, the system can now support the legislative work in the municipalities. This database is the first large-scale regulations database in Japan, and provides the academic base that can quantitatively analyze the regulations. The statistics information of the regulations was reported actually. This system has also a function for classifying the regulations by utilizing a supercomputer. Furthermore, we have also proposed a computational description method of policies and a manual description method of definition provisions of laws.

Free Research Field

法情報学