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Argumentation in the Interpretation of Statutory Law and International Law: Not Ejusdem Generis [PDF]
Languages, 2022 This contribution bridges three fields—pragmatics, argumentation, and law. Arguments can be seen as the verbal formulation of inferences that articulate justificatory relationships, meaning that behind every argument is at least one argumentative ...
Jennifer Smolka
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Lipstick law, or: the three forms of statutory law [PDF]
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2017 Legal scholars often distinguish between de jure rules and de facto situations to explain certain legal situations. However, in some instances this distinction might obscure the legal understanding of these legal situations. In particular, the distinction leaves out often occurring instances in which there is a difference between formal, written law ...
M. Hopman
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Analogical Reasoning in Statutory Law
Journal of Forensic Research, 2017 This article addresses the scope of the potential applications of an analogical argument in the domain of statutory law. The author thus shows how analogy leads to the liquidation of different sorts of legal gaps: extra legem, intra legem, contra legem, technical, logical and constructional. He also highlights the role which analogy can play as a
Maciej Koszowski
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Non-statutory Rulemaking and the Rule of Law: towards a ‘Law of Rules’?
sui-generis, 2017 In various European legal systems, autonomous public bodies and private actors are increasingly invested with rulemaking powers. The phenomenon is usually assessed through the looking glass of the democracy principle, because these actors have a weaker ...
Cedric Jenart, Stéphanie De Somer
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Finding the Law: Enhancing Statutory Article Retrieval via Graph Neural Networks [PDF]
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 Statutory article retrieval (SAR), the task of retrieving statute law articles relevant to a legal question, is a promising application of legal text processing.
A. Louis +2 more
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A lexico-grammatical comparison of statutory law and popular written language
Research in Corpus Linguistics, 2022 While the plain language movement has shed light on the lack of readability of statutory texts for the lay person, there has been a lack of empirical methodology employed to determine the ways in which statutory language differs lexico-grammatically from
Margaret Wood
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Can GPT-3 Perform Statutory Reasoning? [PDF]
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023 Statutory reasoning is the task of reasoning with facts and statutes, which are rules written in natural language by a legislature. It is a basic legal skill. In this paper we explore the capabilities of the most capable GPT-3 model, text-davinci-003, on
Andrew Blair-Stanek +2 more
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Automatic extraction of amendments from polish statutory law
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2021 The article discusses the problem of automatic detection of amendments found in the Polish statutory law. We treat the problem as a token-classification task and we introduce a scheme constructed by analysis of more than 200 amending bills.
Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl +3 more
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COMPARISON BETWEEN CABINET DECREE AND PRESIDENTIAL DECREE
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021 The Constitutional amendment, made with the Law No. 6771 enacted on 21 January 2017, was approved by the referendum held on 16 April 2017. After the amendment the rationalized parliamentary system, which was applied in Turkey, was replaced by the ...
Ali Fuat Geyik +2 more
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