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Approaches to Legal Rationality

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Dov M. Gabbay

    1. Dept. Computer Science, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Patrice Canivez

    1. UFR de Philosophie, Université Lille III, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

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  3. Shahid Rahman

    1. UFR de Philosophie, Université Lille III, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

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  4. Alexandre Thiercelin

    1. Lille, France

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  • Our book is a unique collection of new papers written by leading specialists in several scientific areas (law, logic, philosophy, politics) who try to analyze from the inside the ways and means of legal reasoning.
  • Our book includes papers from both the analytical and the continental philosophical perspectives.
  • Our book provides a state of the art in both fields "logic and law" and "theory of legal reasoning".

Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 20)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Specificity of Legal Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Aristotle on the Ways and Means of Rhetoric

      • Michel Crubellier
      Pages 3-24

    3. Cicero on Conditional Right

      • Fosca Mariani Zini
      Pages 25-47

    4. Inductive Topics and Reorganization of a Classification

      • Pol Boucher
      Pages 49-71

    5. Formal and Informal in Legal Logic

      • Jan Woleński
      Pages 73-86

  3. Legal Reasoning and Public Reason

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Public Reason and Constitutional Interpretation

      • David M. Rasmussen
      Pages 89-96

    3. Democracy and Compromise

      • Patrice Canivez
      Pages 97-118

    4. Reasons for Reasons

      • Mathilde Cohen
      Pages 119-143

    5. Argumentation and Legitimation of Judicial Decisions

      • Sandrine Chassagnard-Pinet
      Pages 145-162

  4. Logic and Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Logic and the Law: Crossing the Lines of Discipline

      • Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods
      Pages 165-201

    3. Epistemic and Practical Aspects of Conditionals in Leibniz’s Legal Theory of Conditions

      • Alexandre Thiercelin
      Pages 203-215

    4. Abduction and Proof: A Criminal Paradox

      • John Woods
      Pages 217-238

    5. Relevance in the Law

      • Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods
      Pages 239-261

  5. New Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. The Logical Structure of Legal Justification: Dialogue or “Trialogue”?

      • Ana Dimiškovska Trajanoska
      Pages 265-280

    3. Explanation and Production: Two Ways of Using and Constructing Legal Argumentation

      • Otto Pfersmann
      Pages 281-293

    4. The Law of Evidence and Labelled Deduction: A Position Paper

      • Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods
      Pages 295-331
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Computer Science, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Dov M. Gabbay

  • UFR de Philosophie, Université Lille III, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

    Patrice Canivez, Shahid Rahman

  • Lille, France

    Alexandre Thiercelin

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