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Reasoning with Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 55.80The central aim of this book is an attempt to demonstrate how the problems of understanding legal reasoning replicate difficulties encountered in the philosophy of language. more...
Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 30.00In this text, the author offers a thesis about how the law works in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts. more...
Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 49.50The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is,for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The analyses that are made in the law and semiotics movements... more...
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
IOS Press 2006; US$ 113.00This volume contains the Proceedings of the Nineteenth JURIX Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2006). The large number of submissions shows that the interdisciplinary community is still growing and active. This volume again covers a broad range of topics. Argumentation is central to legal reasoning and therefore it is no... more...
Translating Law
Multilingual Matters 2007; US$ 74.95Examines legal translation in its many facets from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering both theoretical and practical grounds and linguistic as well as legal issues. This book analyses the basic skills and competence of the legal translator and various types of legal texts. more...
Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Who has the power to define words and concepts? Who can successfully assume the power to speak on behalf of the legal community? Which methods are used to justify the power to define? This book discusses these questions from three related perspectives: Legal theory; Judicial reasoning; and Application of law in politics and diplomatic practice. more...
Methods of legal reasoning
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99Attempts to describe and criticize four methods used in legal practice, legal dogmatics and legal theory: logic, analysis, argumentation and hermeneutics. This book contains essays that seek to answer questions concerning the assumptions standing behind these methods, the limits of using them and their usefulness in the practice and theory of law. more...
Studies in Legal Logic
Springer 2006; US$ 199.99Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law. All of the papers were written after the publication of the author?s Reasoning with Rules and supplement the issues addressed therein. Some of the papers are new; others have been revised substantially after the publication of their... more...
Witness Testimony Evidence
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00Walton provides an introduction to argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. more...
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
IOS Press 2007; US$ 140.00This book includes papers from the twentieth JURIX conference (first organized in 1988). Over the years JURIX has become more and more international. JURIX is originally a Dutch/Belgian initiative. Nowadays, the conference papers are in majority from non-Dutch authors, and since 2002 JURIX is held outside the Netherlands and Belgium every other year.... more...









