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Legal Interpretations in LegalRuleML. [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
Legislative documents are by their own nature subject to interpretation, and interpretations of one document can diverge. In this paper we discuss the mechanism proposed by LegalRuleML to capture alternative interpretations or renderings of a legal source. LegalRuleML allows for mutually incompatible renderings (or interpretations) of a legal source to
Tara Athan   +4 more
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Legal Interpretation

open access: yes, 2010
In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it.
Kent Greenawalt, Greenawalt, Kent
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Legal Interpretation and Coherence

2013
This essay has three interrelated goals. First, I venture to show that some insights from hermeneutic philosophy pertaining to the process of interpretation may be rendered clearer and more explicit with the use of contemporary logical tools. Second, I attempt to construct an analytic theory of legal interpretation (and interpretation in general) and ...
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Legal interpretation in expert systems

Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Artificial intelligence and law - ICAIL '93, 1993
A legal expert system expresses as a set of formal rules the norms found in the provisions of a statute or regulation, in case law or other legal texts. The process of constructing the system involves interpreting these legal texts and recasting each of them into one or more formal legal rules.
Daniel Poulin   +3 more
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A Legal Interpretation of Choreography Models

2019
Model/driven smart contract development approaches are gaining in importance since one of the most popular realizations, blockchain/based smart contracts, are prone to coding errors. However, these modeling approaches predominantly focus on operational aspects of smart contracts, neglecting the legal perspective as manifested by deontic concepts such ...
Jan Ladleif, Mathias Weske
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Legal Argumentation and Legal Interpretation

2017
As an introduction to the discussion of theories of legal justification in the following chapters, this chapter discusses the central topics in the literature on interpretation and application of legal rules in particular, and the law in general. The central focus of this introduction is on the discretionary space judges have in interpreting and ...
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THE INSTITUTIONAL THEORY OF LEGAL INTERPRETATION

University of Toronto Law Journal, 2008
In his provocative and masterly book Judging Under Uncertainty Adrian Vermeule seeks to displace the dominance of what he calls "first-best conceptualism" in legal theory and instead argues that interpretive law needs to take an institutional turn. Vermeule's focus on the empirical problems of institutional interpretation is a welcome and long overdue ...
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Legal Interpretation or Legal Understanding? At least: Understanding to Interpret

2011
The modern hermeneutics of facticity has represented a theoretical-and also practical-contribution of singular importance in order to comprehend the juridical phenomenon, in other words, the understanding of the juridical norms. The veritable hermeneutic experience modifies our initial perception of matters and in the same way it alters the perception ...
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Vagueness, legal content, and legal interpretation

2012
Lawmaking is - paradigmatically - a type of speech act: people make law by saying things. It is natural to think, therefore, that the content of the law is determined by what lawmakers communicate. However, it is sometimes vague what content they communicate, and even when it is clear, the content itself is sometimes vague.
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