Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law

  • Book
  • © 2005

Overview

Authors:
  1. Douglas Walton

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Informal Logic Methods for Law

    Pages 1-34

  3. Generalizations in Legal Reasoning

    Pages 35-74

  4. Defeasible Reasoning in Dialogue Systems

    Pages 75-114

  5. Relevance Determinations of Legal Evidence

    Pages 115-142

  6. Methods Applied to Problems of Evidence

    Pages 143-171

  7. Dialectical Explanation in AI

    Pages 173-212

  8. Argument Invention for Proof Preparation

    Pages 213-248

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 249-270
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

During a recent visit to China to give an invited lecture on legal argumentation I was asked a question about conventional opinion in western countries. If legal r- soning is thought to be important by those both inside and outside the legal prof- sion, why does there appear to be so little attention given to the study of legal logic? This was a hard question to answer. I had to admit there were no large or well-established centers of legal logic in North America that I could recommend as places to study. Going through customs in Vancouver, the customs officer asked what I had been doing in China. I told him I had been a speaker at a conf- ence. He asked what the conference was on. I told him legal logic. He asked 1 whether there was such a thing. He was trying to be funny, but I thought he had a good point. People will question whether there is such a thing as “legal logic”, and some recent very prominent trials give the question some backing in the common opinion. But having thought over the question of why so little attention appears to be given to legal logic as a mainstream subject in western countries, I think I now have an answer. The answer is that we have been looking in the wrong place.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"In this book, Walton presents his perspective on argumentation methods for artificial intelligence and law. … the different tools are combined in a way that makes them potentially useful for understanding legal reasoning. … this book offers a valuable perspective on the current state and future research directions of argumentation methods for artificial intelligence and law." (Jelle van Veenen, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 14, 2006)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

    Douglas Walton

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation