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Lawyers' Languageby Alfred Phillips
Routledge 2002; US$ 183.00An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. more...
Practice Notes On Debt Recoveryby Stephen Allinson
Routledge-Cavendish 2001; US$ 44.95A concise yet thorough guide to the law of debt recovery. It covers the implementation of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 and explains the changes which have had a major effect on practice in both the High Court and county court. It includes references to the forms and precedents available. more...
Legal Reasonby Lloyd L. Weinreb
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 21.00Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is a distinctive feature of legal argument. Written for scholars as well as students and persons interested in law, Legal Reason is written in clear, accessible prose, with many examples drawn from the law and from everyday experience. more...
The Judicial Processby E. W. Thomas
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 49.00This book dismantles the outdated theories still exhibited in much judicial reasoning, and seeks to bridge the gap between legal theory and judicial practice. The author propounds a coherent and comprehensive judicial methodology for modern times which is realistic and pragmatic and which embraces a revised conception of practical reasoning. more...
On the History of the Idea of Lawby Shirley Robin Letwin
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 40.00The final work of the celebrated conservative thinker Shirley Robin Letwin, On The History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to collect and criticise the basic theories of law propounded by the great philosophers from Plato to the present. more...
Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Lawby Douglas Walton
Springer 2005; US$ 179.00Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. Many vitally important problems of legal reasoning can be profitably studied in light of these new methods, and even if they cannot all be solved in any single monograph. This book provides a survey of the leading problems, and oultines how future research using argumentation-based methods, show great promise of leading to useful solutions. The problems studied include not only thise of argument evluation and argument invention, but also analysis of specific kinds of evidence commonly used in law, like witness testimony, circumstantial evidence, forensic evidence and character evidence. New tools for analyzing these kinds of evidence are introduced,... more...
Legal Knowledge and Information Systemsby M.-F. Moens; P. Spyns
IOS Press 2005; US$ 102.00e-government applications are gaining ground among local, national, European and international institutions. However, there is a need for the integration and harmonisation of the models. For a marriage between artificial intelligence and e-government to happen, technologies that automatically extract knowledge from natural language are needed. more...
Courts, Justice, and Efficiencyby Hector Fix-Fierro
Hart 2004; US$ 136.80This study explores the socio-legal context of economic rationality in the legal and, specifically, judicial systems. In so doing it explores the meaning and relevance of the concept of efficiency for the operation of courts and court systems. more...
Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Lawby Mark van Hoecke
Hart 2004; US$ 146.40Whereas many modern works on comparative law focus on various aspects of legal doctrine, the aim of this book is more theoretical - to reflect on comparative law as a scholarly discipline, and in particular its epistemology and methodology. It seeks answers to fundamental, scientific problems of comparative research. more...
Law as Communicationby Mark Van Hoecke
Hart 2002; US$ 124.80This text argues that our conception of the legal system, of democracy, of the legitimation of law and of the respective role of judges, legislators and legal scholars should be based on a pluralist and communicative approach. It analyses the main problems of jurisprudence from such a perspective. more...