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  • A Theory of Legal Sentences

    by Manuel Atienza, J. Ruiz Manero ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Legal statements are, according to the authors, the most basic elements of the law. Nevertheless they must be considered not only as the pieces of a puzzle, but also as the components of a dynamic and highly complex reality: the law of contemporary society. The book presents an analysis of the different types of legal statements (mandatory rules, principles, power-conferring rules, definitions, ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Human Dignity and the Autonomy of Law

    Edited by José Manuel Aroso Linhares, Manuel Atienza ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book intertwines two major themes in contemporary legal theory – the concepts of human dignity and the problem of the autonomy and limits of the law – while also addressing two other key aspects – the first one concerned with human rights practices and foundations (in their direct connections with the issue of dignity), the second one considering the role that the law’s aspirations attribute ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

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  • Giving Reasons

    A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory

    by Lilian Bermejo Luque ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result is a ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning

    Edited by Z. Bankowski, Ulrike Hahn, I. White ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning represents a close collaboration between a wide range of disciplines and countries. Fourteen papers, together with a long analytical introduction by the editors, were selected from the contributions of legal theorists, computer scientists, philosophers and logicians who were members of an International Working Group supported by the European ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation

    A Survey of Theories on the Justification of Judicial Decisions

    by Eveline T. Feteris ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpretation, as well as the implications of these new developments for the theory of legal argumentation. Almost every chapter has been revised and updated, ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Reasoning with Rules

    An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic

    by Jaap Hage ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism. Such a treatment overlooks the fact that legal principles and rules are not statements which describe the world, but rather means by which humans impose structure on the world. Legal rules create legal consequences, they do not describe them. This has consequences for the logic of rule- and principle-applying arguments ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Legal Indeterminacy and Constitutional Interpretation

    by J.J. Moreso ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $115.29 CAD

  • Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking

    Edited by Michał Araszkiewicz, Krzysztof Płeszka ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents the current state of the art regarding the application of logical tools to the problems of theory and practice of lawmaking. It shows how contemporary logic may be useful in the analysis of legislation, legislative drafting and legal reasoning concerning different contexts of law making.Elaborations of the process of law making have variously emphasised its political, social or ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic

    Edited by Matthias Armgardt, Patrice Canivez, Sandrine Chassagnard-Pinet ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor´s Dilemma, the theory of legal fictions and the categorization of contracts. The unifying ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Reasons for Action and the Law

    by M.C. Redondo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Giovanni Sartor, L. Karl Branting ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The judiciary is in the early stages of a transformation in which AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology will help to make the judicial process faster, cheaper, and more predictable without compromising the integrity of judges' discretionary reasoning. Judicial decision-making is an area of daunting complexity, where highly sophisticated legal expertise merges with cognitive and emotional ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Prospects of Legal Semiotics

    Edited by Anne Wagner, Jan M. Broekman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD