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New book: "Approaches to legal rationality"

A New Book Publiced by Springer : Approaches to Legal Rationality
Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Vol. 20

Gabbay, D.M.; Canivez, P.; Rahman, S.; Thiercelin, A. (Eds.)

1st Edition., 2011, IX, 422 p., Hardcover

ISBN: 978-90-481-9587-9

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.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » argumentation theory ? legal reasoning ? logic and law

Related subjects » Artificial Intelligence ? Law ? Logic & Philosophy of 
Language ? Philosophical Traditions ? Political Science

Table of contents:Â  Introduction.- Abstracts.- Part I The Specificity of Legal 
Reasoning.- Part II Legal Reasoning and Public Reason.- Part III Logic and 
Law.- Part IV New Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning .- Part V Logic in the 
Law.