Towards the formalization of legal causal reasoning

Author

Lehmann, Jos

Author_Institution

Fac. of Law, Amsterdam Univ., Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

780

Lastpage

784

Abstract

In order to build an artificial legal causal reasoner, i.e. a software component that can lead causal reasoning for legal purposes, it is necessary to enhance legal-theoretical accounts of causation by means of formal theories of commonsense reasoning, developed in philosophy, logic and artificial intelligence (AI). The article presents the methodological setup of the author´s research about legal causal knowledge and it shows that merging legal-theoretical and AI-like views on causation requires a preliminary thorough ontological specification of the notion of `Event´, which is generally considered as the basic building block of causal reasoning

Keywords

common-sense reasoning; formal specification; law administration; AI-like views; Event; artificial intelligence; artificial legal causal reasoner; causal reasoning; causation; commonsense reasoning; formal theories; legal causal knowledge; legal causal reasoning formalization; legal-theoretical accounts; ontological specification; software component; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Expert systems; Knowledge based systems; Law; Legal factors; Legislation; Logic; Merging; Ontologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1999. Proceedings. Tenth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0281-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.1999.795283

Filename

795283