Improving access to law through Norm Engineering
Navigating the complexity of modern regulations
Increasing complexity of laws and regulations
Citizens, businesses, and even legal experts face growing challenges in understanding and applying increasingly complex and constantly changing regulations.
Difficulty translating regulations into operational processes
Organizations often struggle to convert legal requirements into consistent, transparent, and auditable operational workflows and decision-making systems.
Limited accessibility and transparency in legal processes
Traditional legal and regulatory systems can make it difficult for stakeholders to understand how decisions are made, reducing trust, accessibility, and participation.
High administrative and compliance burden
Complex regulatory environments create significant compliance costs, administrative effort, and monitoring challenges for both governments and regulated organizations.
A collaborative approach to legal engineering and digital regulation
Smarter policy and lawmaking
The partnership helps policymakers create clearer and more consistent regulations through explicit and machine-readable representations of legal norms, enabling better consultation processes, impact analysis, and regulatory design.
Transparent and explainable legal decision-making
Using open standards and low-code technologies, organizations can develop auditable and explainable legal services that improve trust, accountability, and transparency across decision-making processes.
Proven applications in government services
The partnership supported the Dutch Immigration Service (IND) in developing the INDiGO platform for immigration case handling and created an eRulemaking demonstrator for the US Government, showcasing how legal engineering technologies can improve accessibility, participation, compliance, and operational agility in complex regulatory environments.
Open standards for connected regulatory ecosystems
The collaboration promotes standards such as FLINT and USLM to support consistent legal knowledge representation and easier exchange of regulatory interpretations between governments, organizations, and technology providers.
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About TNO
TNO is an independent research organization in applied sciences founded by law. TNO connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the competitive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustainable way. TNO’s mission is to create independent and reliable solutions for the challenges that the society faces.
About Leibniz Institute
The Leibniz Institute is a joint venture between the University of Amsterdam and TNO. They conduct research on norms and normative reasoning since the 1980‘s. At that time expert-systems were the core focus in AI and we focussed on expert-systems in the field of law. The main purpose of Leibniz‘ research: provide access to law for citizens and improve productivity of organizations providing legal services (incl. governmental agencies).
