Legal Reasoning

Volume 1: Part 1 Reasoning and science in law: reason in law, Norberto Bobbio; the foundation of legal reasoning, Aulis Aarnio; truth and legal norms, Ilkka Niiniluoto; models of reason, types of principles and reasoning, Enrico Pattaro; legal science between natural science and human sciences, Vittorio Villa. Part 2 Reasoning as justification in law: a note on discovery and justification in science and law, Martin Golding; the justification of the judicial decision, Rolf Sartorious; justification and judicial responsibility, David Lyons; the artificial reason and judgement of the law, Neil MacCormick. Part 3 Rational foundations for reasoning in law: law as practical reason, Michael J. Detmold; Perelman and Habermas, Guy Haarscher; the foundation of legal reasoning, Aleksander Peczenik; the foundation of legal reasoning, Robert Alexy; no right answer, Ronald Dworkin; the jurisprudence of scepticism, Richard Posner. Part 4 Logic and artificial intelligence in law: deontic logic revisited, G.N. Von Wright; logic of norms and logic of normative propositions, Carlos Alchourron; norms and logic - Kelsen and Weinberger on the ontology of norms, Eugenio Bulygin; the expressive conceptions of norms - an impasse for the logic of norms, Ota Weinberger; expert systems in law - a jurisprudential approach to artificial intelligence and legal reasoning, Richard Susskind; legal expert systems - misunderstanding the legal process, Philip Leith. Volume 2: Part 1 Basic elements of justificatory reasoning: legal reasoning - in search of an adequate theory of argument; logical method and law, John Dewey; two types of substantive reasons - the core of a theory of common law justification, Robert S. Summers; on legal decisions and their consequences - from Dewey to Dworkin, Neil MacCormick. Part 2 Pragmatic reasoning or principled decision?: from principles to pragmatism - changes in the function of the judicial process, Patrick Atiyah; from principles to principles, Julius Stone; general norms and legal reasoning, Hannu Tapani Klami; guiding standards in legal reasoning, Thorstein Eckoff; the role of coherence in legal reasoning, Barbara Baum Levenbook; legal reasoning and coherence theories, Kenneth J. Kress. Part 3 Interpretation and justification: law as interpretation, Ronald Dworkin; working on the chain gang - interpretation in law and literature, Stanley Fish; objectivity and interpretation, Owen Fiss; on interpretation - the adultery clause of the ten commandments, Sandford Levinson; the semantics of common law predicates, Michael W.B. Sinclair; teleological construction of statutes, 2, Per Olof Ekelof; legal language and legal interpretation, 4, Jerzy Wroblewski. Part 4 Reasoning on facts and causation: evidence and legal theory, William L. Twining; the mathematics of proof, Glanville L. Williams; the logic of proof, Jonathan L. Cohen; the probability debate, Richard Eggleston; narrative models in legal proof, 1, Bernard Jackson.