Frameworks
First-class pages for the Institute's named models, laws and protocols. Each carries a version number, a changelog, a diagram, a worked example and its known limitations, because frameworks are versioned like code.
The Four Laws of System Design for Computational Law
A legal AI system must never overstate its confidence, must explain every output, must ground every legal proposition in validated authority, and must keep its reasoning components testable and versioned, with each law yielding to the laws above it.
Read the Four LawsThe Proposition-Usability Model
A cited proposition is usable only when it is still valid, governs in the forum and procedural posture, helps the represented party, and has not already been rejected in the jurisdiction.
Grayness Score and Gray Area Radar
The Grayness Score is a composite, evidence-linked indicator of how far the legal system itself treats a question as contested, and the Gray Area Radar is the view that shows a lawyer which signals fired and where they came from.
Version Control for Law
Legal interpretation can be governed like a versioned codebase: enacted text is the protected main branch, opinions are signed commits, dissents are preserved branches, and overruling is a force push allowed only through logged, gated conditions.
The Gibsonian Canons of Constitutional Interpretation
A closed, priority-ordered law of interpretation, enacted before any institution is given power to interpret, that binds every interpreter to the same method and requires a traceable record of each interpretation.
Counter-Model Builder
An opposition system succeeds when it hands the court a complete, record-grounded replacement for the movant's proposed order, not a list of objections filed under the movant's headings.
Case Treatment Taxonomy
Each treatment of an earlier case by a later one is classified holding by holding, along three dimensions (scope, severity and mechanism), into one of four families, and when in doubt the classification over-flags rather than under-flags.
The Twelve Bridges
A legal 'therefore' is established law only when it crosses one of twelve recognized doctrinal bridges from precedent to conclusion; a synthesis that crosses none is argument, and must be presented as argument.
Posture Dispersion (Z)
Hold verified law fixed, vary only the judicial posture across a declared panel, subtract the instrument's own replicate noise, and the normalized dispersion that remains, Z, measures how open a procedural question is.
Posture Mismatch Taxonomy
A citation can be real, accurate, good law and on point and still be wrong, because the proposition it is offered for depends on a standard, record, burden or forum different from the motion's; element definitions and substantive rules usually carry across stages, sufficiency holdings do not.
Pre-Filing Completeness Protocol
Research is complete enough to file when every element of every claim at issue has its governing standard, controlling authority, record support, adverse-authority check and rejected-argument check recorded, and every one of those cells ends in a citation or a logged search that found nothing.