Law and Defeasibility -- Law and Coherence -- Reason-Based Logic -- Comparing Alternatives -- Rule Consistency -- What is a Norm? -- Legal Statics and Legal Dynamics -- Dialectical Models in Artificial Intelligence and Law -- Legal Reasoning and Legal Integration.Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law. All of the pape…
I -- The Model of Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe: An Overview -- Constitutional Courts in Search of Legitimacy -- The Model of Judicial Review and its Implications -- Constitutional Courts and Legislation -- II -- Judicial Review and Protection of Constitutional Rights -- Personal, Civil and Political Rights and Liberties -- Socio-Economic Rights -- Equality and Minority Ri…
Defining the Rights to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Glucksberg v. Compassion -- A Legal Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- A Moral Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide -- The Concept of Fetal Rights -- Maternal Duties and Fetal Rights -- The Scope of the Right to Procreational Autonomy -- Possessors of the Right to Procreational Autonomy -- Medical Futility and Moral Rights.Medical Law and …
Legal Issues in the Data Selection Phase -- Legal Issues in the Data Pre-Processing Phase -- Legal Issues in the Data Transformation Phase -- Data Mining with Rule Induction -- Uncertain and Statistical Data Mining -- Data Mining Using Neural Networks -- Information Retrieval and Text Mining -- Evaluation, Deployment and Related Issues -- Conclusion.Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is t…
Informal Logic Methods for Law -- Generalizations in Legal Reasoning -- Defeasible Reasoning in Dialogue Systems -- Relevance Determinations of Legal Evidence -- Methods Applied to Problems of Evidence -- Dialectical Explanation in AI -- Argument Invention for Proof Preparation.During a recent visit to China to give an invited lecture on legal argumentation I was asked a question about conventi…
Concepts Taken Apart -- The Concept of Power -- The Concept of Influence -- Concepts Put Together -- Power and Freedom -- Social Power and Legal Power -- Influence and Power: A Mess Transformed?.This book will be of interest to legal, political and other social theorists/philosophers. Unique in its topics as well as in its approach, the book takes substantial steps towards answering essential q…
Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs, income, equal pay and the right to industrial action, did Magna Carta mean anything? Albeit…