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Towards a Design Science Research Process for Legal Compliance by Design

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The increasing complexity of IT-related laws and regulations pushes IS research to better integrate compliance into IS design processes.One key issue is the presence of often multiple legal provisions relevant to the same artifact.This generates tensions that can only be resolved through legal reasoning.Building on design science research and interdisciplinary literature, we explore features of a holistic design process based on legal reasoning to support legal compliance.We focus on the early stages of the design process -i.e., problem identification and definition of the objectives -and introduce two novel design activities: (1) analyzing the nature of requirements and (2) identifying and defining design trade-offs.Thereby, we develop a preliminary guideline to engage with legal experts.Our emerging method eases the transition into the design phase by putting legal reasoning before the definition of design objectives.

Source: Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg)

Authors: HÖß, Alexandra, POCHER, Nadia, Roth, Tamara, FRIDGEN, Gilbert

Institutions: University of Luxembourg, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust

Language: English

Topic: Information Systems Theories and Implementation

Subfield: Management Information Systems

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg

Awards: G307562705, G5107430903, G6326759832