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Value assessment and revision in legal interpretation

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Juliano Maranhão,

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ICAIL '19: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3322640.3326709

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The research aims at a formal definition of constructive interpretation in law as the dynamic of revision of theories about the normative system, embedding a model of balancing values [13] into an architecture of i/o logics representing conceptual, deontological and axiological rules [11]. We also introduce new revision operators which are relevant in the context of value assessments.

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Benzmüller CFuenmayor DLomfeld B(2024)Modelling Value-Oriented Legal Reasoning in LogiKEyLogics10.3390/logics20100032:1(31-78)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/logics2010003
Sartor G(2023)Interpretation, Argumentation, and the Determinacy of LawRatio Juris10.1111/raju.1238936:3(214-241)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12389
Maranhão Jde Souza ESartor GMaranhão JWyner A(2021)A dynamic model for balancing valuesProceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law10.1145/3462757.3466143(89-98)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3462757.3466143

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Value assessment and revision in legal interpretation
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Law
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Nonmonotonic, default reasoning and belief revision

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Benzmüller CFuenmayor DLomfeld B(2024)Modelling Value-Oriented Legal Reasoning in LogiKEyLogics10.3390/logics20100032:1(31-78)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/logics2010003
Sartor G(2023)Interpretation, Argumentation, and the Determinacy of LawRatio Juris10.1111/raju.1238936:3(214-241)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12389
Maranhão Jde Souza ESartor GMaranhão JWyner A(2021)A dynamic model for balancing valuesProceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law10.1145/3462757.3466143(89-98)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3462757.3466143

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