Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Zenon Bankowski, Ian White, Ulrike Hahn.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xiii, 375 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Law and philosophy library, 21.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Policy Arguments and Legal Reasoning --; Defeasibility in Law and Logic --; Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning --; On Some Problems of the Theory of Legal Argumentation --; Analogical Reasoning and Legal Institutions --; The Redundancy of Reasoning --; Ontology and Dimension in Legal Reasoning --; Common Law Concepts: The Problem of Indefinability --; Formalization, Invention, Justification --; On the Rôle of Deontic Logic in the Characterization of Normative Systems --; AI, Legal Theory and EC Law: A Mapping of the Main Problems --; Building an Intestate Succession Adviser: Compartmentalisation and Creativity in Decision Support Systems --; Legislation as Logic Programs --; Using Information Technology as a Determiner of Legal Facts.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning represents a close collaboration between a wide range of disciplines and countries. Fourteen papers, together with a long analytical introduction by the editors, were selected from the contributions of legal theorists, computer scientists, philosophers and logicians who were members of an International Working Group supported by the European Commission. The Group was mandated to work towards determining how far the law is amenable to formal modeling, and in what ways computers might assist legal thinking and practice. The book is the result of discussions held by the Group over two and half years. It will help students and researchers from different backgrounds to focus on a common set of topics of increasing general interest. It embodies the results of work in progress and suggests many issues for further discussion. A stimulating text for undergraduate and graduate courses in law, philosophy and computer science departments, as well as for those interested in the place of computers in legal practice, especially at the international level.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Logic.
Philosophy (General)
Philosophy of law.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
K87
Book number
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E358
1995
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Zenon Bankowski, Ian White, Ulrike Hahn.