A Three Steps Methodological Approach to Legal Governance Validation

TL;DR

This paper proposes a three-step empirical methodology for validating legal governance models, using visual diagrams to support the development of smart legal ecosystems for Industry 4.0 and 5.0.

Contribution

It introduces a novel visual and empirical approach to validate legal governance models through diagrams and causal validation schemes.

Findings

Validated legal governance models using visual diagrams

Developed a causal validation scheme for legal compliance

Supported the construction of smart legal ecosystems

Abstract

We present in this position paper a methodology to validate legal governance regulatory models from an empirical approach, as illustrated by means of three diagrams: (i) a scheme drawing the rule and meta-rule of law; (ii) a metamodel for legal governance; (iii) a causal validation scheme for legal compliance. These visualisations refer to different sets of notions corresponding respectively to (i) a general scheme with three dimensions and four clusters, (ii) a meta-model encompassing legal compliance through design (LCtD) and ecological validity, and (iii) the con-struction of an empirical validation model of causal chains. The final aim of the methodology is to build and test smart legal ecosystems (SLE) for Industry 4.0 and 5.0.