Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, and Other Legal Essays

Examples in Legal Reasoning: Legal Hypotheticals

This paper discusses examples, p a r t i c u l a r l y hypo the t i ca ls , t he i r use and generat ion, in legal reasoning. It examines the use of sequences of hypo the t i ca ls .

Causes of Judicial and Legal Criminal Policy Disagreement in Drug-Related Offenses from the Legal-Ethical Approach

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...

AI and Legal Reasoning

This paper presents a summary of the responses of a panel to issues on AI and legal reasoning. The panel consisted Among the issues addressed by the panel were: 1. What are the characteristics of the legal domain that make it interesting or amenable to AI approaches-what is special about it; 2. The open-textured nature of legal concepts and the implications this has for using Al-techniques, esp...

Argumentation in Legal Reasoning

A popular view of what Artificial Intelligence can do for lawyers is that it can do no more than deduce the consequences from a precisely stated set of facts and legal rules. This immediately makes many lawyers sceptical about the usefulness of such systems: this mechanical approach seems to leave out most of what is important in legal reasoning. A case does not appear as a set of facts, but ra...

Legal Personality—Legislative or Judicial Prerogative