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  • "Recht ist Streit"by Jing Li

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00

    Using linguistic instruments this work sets out to give a transparent description of the text-supported and discourse-based legal dispute in the process of reaching a legal judgement. It examines a corpus of authentic texts originating from six related legal cases in Germany, identifying distinct speech act patterns and the specific action strategies... more...

  • Adjudication in Actionby Baudouin Dupret

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95

    A rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living law' as it unfolds in context and in action to develop a fuller understanding of what law is, Adjudication in Action engages with Wittgenstein's later thought along with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, to explore people's orientation around and... more...

  • Approaches to Legal Ontologiesby Giovanni Sartor; Pompeu Casanovas; Mariangela Biasiotti; Meritxell Fernandez-Barrera

    Springer 2010; US$ 109.99

    The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and retrieval of legal information in the Semantic Web framework. It will thus interest researchers in the... more...

  • Approaches to Legal Rationalityby Dov M. Gabbay; Patrice Canivez; Shahid Rahman; Alexandre Thiercelin

    Springer 2010; US$ 109.99

    Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare... more...

  • Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Lawby Douglas Walton

    Springer 2005; US$ 139.99

    Use 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... more...

  • Briefcase on Family Lawby L.B. Curzon

    Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 28.95

    This Briefcase  is made up of a very wide selection of cases chosen so as to enunciate and illustrate some of the fundamental principles applied by the courts to contemporary problems of family law. The basic facts of the cases and the courts decisions are outlined, and particular attention is given to judicial comments on the essence of the legal... more...

  • Coherenceby Michal Araszkiewicz; Jaromír ?avelka

    Springer 2013; US$ 99.99

    This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. The individual chapters present the topic from the general philosophical perspective, the perspective of legal-theory as well as the viewpoint of cognitive sciences and the research on artificial intelligence and law. As it has turned out the interchange... more...

  • Comparative Legal Linguisticsby Heikki E.S. Mattila

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 144.95

    This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French, Spanish and English. The work will... more...

  • Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Lawby Anne Wagner; Tracey Summerfield; Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas

    Hart Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 49.50

    The 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...

  • Demystifying Legal Reasoningby Larry Alexander; Emily Sherwin

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00

    This book defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. more...