Jusletter IT

The Whole Truth About the Law – Reasoning About Exceptions in Legal AI

  • Autoren/Autorinnen: Stephan Leuenberger / Burkhard Schafer
  • Kategorie: Beiträge
  • Region: Schottland
  • Rechtsgebiete: Juristische Informatik-Systeme und Anwendungen
  • Sammlung: Tagungsband IRIS 2017
  • Zitiervorschlag: Stephan Leuenberger / Burkhard Schafer, The Whole Truth About the Law – Reasoning About Exceptions in Legal AI, in: Jusletter IT 23. Februar 2017
Defeasible reasoning plays an important part in understanding and modelling legal argumentation. The most commonly used approaches in AI and Law however do not capture legal disputes that are themselves about the legal understanding of defeasibility, argument types that nonetheless play an important role in judicial review or in appeals. We introduce a theory of reasoning about exceptions (or the lack of them) that has been developed by Richard Holton in an attempt to clarify our understanding of the status of ethical norms. We show its potential to add to our theoretical machinery for the analysis of legal reasoning, but also suggest some necessary refinements.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction and motivation
  • 2. «That’s it, folks»
  • 3. Discussion

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