Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Armgardt, Matthias (Editor), Canivez, Patrice (Editor), Chassagnard-Pinet, Sandrine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Political science.; Applied linguistics.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Sociology.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Applied Linguistics.; Knowledge - Discourse.

This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective.  The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction; Patrice Canivez and Giuliano Bacigalupo
• Part 1. Roman Law and Logic
• Proculus on the Meanings of OR and the Types of Disjunction; Karlheinz Hülser
• Disjunctive Statements in Roman Legal Arguments; Markus Winkler
• Part 2. Leibniz, Law and Logic
• Presumptions and Conjectures in Leibniz’s Legal Theory; Matthias Armgardt
• Suspensive Condition & Dynamic Epistemic Logic; Sebastien Magnier
• The Rhetor’s Dilemma: Leibniz’s Approach to an Ancient Case; Bettine Jankowski
• Part 3. Current Interactions between Law and Logic
• On Hypothetical Judgements and Leibniz’s Notion of Conditional Right; Shahid Rahman
• Legal Fictions, Assumptions and Comparisons; Giuliano Bacigalupo
• Reasoning with Form & Content; Juliele Sievers and Sebastien Magnier
• Note on a Second Order Game in Legal Practice; Reinhard Z. Bengez
• Conflict of Norms and Conflict of Values in Law; Sandrine Chassagnard-Pinet
• The Service Contract (Contrat d´Entreprise); Juliette Sénéchal.