Pringle: Legal Reasoning, Text, Purpose and Teleology

Behavior, Purpose and Teleology

This essay has two goals. The first is to define the behavioristic study of natural events and to classify behavior. The second is to stress the importance of the concept of purpose. Given any object, relatively abstracted from its surroundings for study, the behavioristic approach consists in the examination of the output of the object and of the relations of this output to the input. By outpu...

Neural Reasoning for Legal Text Understanding

We propose a domain specific Question Answering system. We deviate from approaching this problem as a Textual Entailment task. We implemented a Memory Network-based Question Answering system which test a Machine’s understanding of legal text and identifies whether an answer to a question is correct or wrong, given some background knowledge. We also prepared a corpus of real USA MBE Bar exams fo...

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...

Teleology

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 .