DiaLaw On Legal Justification and Dialogical Models of Argumentation

DiaLaw On Legal Justification and Dialogical Models of Argumentation / by A.R. Lodder.

This book is a revised version of my dissertation 'DiaLaw - on legal th justification and dialog games' that I defended on June 5 1998 at the Universiteit Maastricht. The chapters 1, 4 & 5 (now: 1, 5 & 6) of my dissertation have remained largely unaltered. In chapter 2 I added expl...

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Main Author: Lodder, A.R (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 42
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Law—Philosophy.
Law.
Computers.
Law and legislation.
Artificial intelligence.
Political science.
Computational linguistics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1. Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • 2. Legal justification
  • 3. Outline of the book
  • 2 From law to DiaLaw Why legal justification should be modeled dialogically
  • 1. The product and the process of justification
  • 2. Justification as a product
  • 3. The defeasible nature of legal justification
  • 4. The open nature of law
  • 5. The Münchhausen Trilemma
  • 6. Justification as a process: a dialogical model
  • 7. Dealing with defeasibility, open nature, and the Münchhausen Trilemma in a dialogical model
  • 8. Justification of dialog rules and altering protocols
  • 9. How pure is the procedure of legal justification?
  • 10. Conclusion
  • 3 DiaLaw Framework and general rules
  • 1. Justification in DiaLaw
  • 2. Basic concepts of DiaLaw
  • 3. DiaLaw’s dialogical framework
  • 4. General rules for communication
  • 5. Towards legal justification
  • 4 DiaLaw Special rules for communication
  • 1. Special language elements
  • 2. Special rules for communication - legal tools and forced commitment
  • 3. Concluding remarks
  • 5 DiaLaw in action
  • 1. The Tyrell case
  • 2. The Chabot case
  • 3. Concluding remarks
  • 6 Dialogical models of argumentation
  • 1. The purpose of models
  • 2. A short sample dialog
  • 3. Mackenzie’s DC and Hamblin’s H
  • 4. Rescher’s Dialectics and the formal elaboration by Brewka
  • 5. Gordon’s Pleadings Game
  • 6. Survey of moves and commitment
  • 7. Other related research
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 7 What is an argument? Properties of procedural models of argumentation
  • 1. Argumentation: two perspectives
  • 2. Argumentation: two types
  • 3. Towards combining the approaches
  • 4. DiaLaw: rational and dia-rational argumentation
  • 5. Procedural and structural arguments
  • 6. Layers in models of legal argumentation
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 8 In conclusion
  • 1. On legal justification
  • 2. The answers
  • 3. The future: towards natural dialog models
  • 4. Closing remarks
  • Appendix- Prolog code of DiaLaw
  • References
  • Index of names
  • Index of subjects.

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