Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare occasion to meet. The present book contains contributions, both historical and thematic, from leading researchers in several of the most important approaches to legal rationality. One of the main issues is the relation between logic and law: the way logic is actually used in law, but also the way logic can make law explicit. An outstanding group of philosophers, logicians and jurists try to meet this issue. The book is more than a collection of papers. However different their respective conceptual tools may be, the authors share a common conception: legal argumentation is a specific argumentation context.
Author(s): Dov M. Gabbay, Patrice Canivez, Shahid Rahman, Alexandre Thiercelin (eds.)
Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 20
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 433
Tags: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Logic; History of Philosophy; Political Science, general; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Aristotle on the Ways and Means of Rhetoric....Pages 3-24
Cicero on Conditional Right....Pages 25-47
Inductive Topics and Reorganization of a Classification....Pages 49-71
Formal and Informal in Legal Logic....Pages 73-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Public Reason and Constitutional Interpretation....Pages 89-96
Democracy and Compromise....Pages 97-118
Reasons for Reasons....Pages 119-143
Argumentation and Legitimation of Judicial Decisions....Pages 145-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Logic and the Law: Crossing the Lines of Discipline....Pages 165-201
Epistemic and Practical Aspects of Conditionals in Leibniz’s Legal Theory of Conditions....Pages 203-215
Abduction and Proof: A Criminal Paradox....Pages 217-238
Relevance in the Law....Pages 239-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
The Logical Structure of Legal Justification: Dialogue or “Trialogue”?....Pages 265-280
Explanation and Production: Two Ways of Using and Constructing Legal Argumentation....Pages 281-293
The Law of Evidence and Labelled Deduction: A Position Paper....Pages 295-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
How Logic Is Spoken of at the European Court of Justice: A Preliminary Exploration....Pages 335-416
Back Matter....Pages 417-422
