Norma-system A legal document system for managing consolidated acts

Abstract

The time element inherent in normative systems has become a central topic of the cultural and political debate and is of fundamental concern to legal computer science. The law is under increasing pressure to keep pace with social change: normative texts and amendments follow one another in time and get overlapped. Given this background the Norma-System project, presented in this paper, seeks to use the theoretical, legistic, and legimatic models for facilitating the task of identifying and determining what is the law in force in order to face the multiple problems from which the Italian legal system is currently suffering1.