Legal analysis
Make laws and regulations understandable, testable and enforceable
Laws and regulations are everywhere – both outside the organization (such as laws and policies) and inside. In our highly regulated world, it is a challenge to always comply with all regulations.
Legal analysis provides the solution for this. By converting complex laws and regulations into a logical formal model, laws become understandable and applicable for both humans and computers. This allows you to analyze the impact of legislative changes in advance and gain insight into your organization’s compliance and compliance obligations.
About Legal analysis
Legal analysis based on the Legal Reference Model (JRM) is the discipline that focuses on unraveling, structuring and understanding the currently complex structure and content of legislation. It is a method for analyzing legislation by identifying, defining and annotating its components – components such as legal subjects (the parties involved) or legal facts (events affecting the situation of those parties).
The JRM is the underlying legal model that determines which elements to identify and how to model them in a legal analysis. Using the JRM, we transform legislation into a structured, logical and understandable form. As a result, legislation becomes more transparent, accessible and clear for both lawyers and citizens.
Some crucial improvements of the JRM over the Legal Analysis Scheme (JAS) presented in the “Legal analysis – for workable implementation of legislation with ICT” book are:
the introduction of the distinction between objective and subjective law,
The legal scenario with its underlying legal deeds,
The impact of the legally relevant fact (JRF) on the various legal elements of the JRM.
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Getting started with Legal analysis
Tooling, training, articles and more
Free introductory meeting with our executive consultants
In this one-hour meeting, you will discuss with our executive consultants how Legal analysis can help improve your organization’s compliance, insight and efficiency, and plan together any possible next steps.
Legal analysis in iKnow
With iKnow, you bring Legal analysis to life. The tool suite supports modeling according to the principles of CogNIAM and helps to efficiently capture data, rules and processes from laws and regulations. iKnow secures both the legal model and the knowledge model and makes the results directly applicable within your organization.
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Legal analysis with MiKnow
Online course on Legal analysis available soon!
MiKnow is an online platform that combines self-paced learning with instant feedback from experts and personal guidance – providing a truly blended learning experience. It is a perfect alternative to traditional workshops for individual participants, or a flexible addition for teams.
A MiKnow course on Legal analysis will be available soon!
This course consists of videos, podcasts, textual explanations and many exercises.
Watch the video to get a better idea of the course content.
In this video, we explain how Legal analysis helps make the implicit logic in legislation explicit.
More about CogNIAM
CogNIAM is at the core of all PNA activities. It is a knowledge modeling method that approaches processes (BPMN), rules (DMN), Data (FBM) and semantics integrally rather than separately. CogNIAM also forms the basis of the Legal Reference Model (JRM) that underlies further development of Legal analysis. It defines the core aspects of legal knowledge decomposition: the legal processes, the rules that drive them (derivation rules), the data involved (legally relevant facts) and their definitions (also referred to as the semantics).