Statutory Interpretation
Pragmatics and Argumentation
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- Authors:
- Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Ontario
- Fabrizio Macagno, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Giovanni Sartor, Università di Bologna
- Date Published: August 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108454070
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Statutory interpretation involves the reconstruction of the meaning of a legal statement when it cannot be considered as accepted or granted. This phenomenon needs to be considered not only from the legal and linguistic perspective, but also from the argumentative one - which focuses on the strategies for defending a controversial or doubtful viewpoint. This book draws upon linguistics, legal theory, computing, and dialectics to present an argumentation-based approach to statutory interpretation. By translating and summarizing the existing legal interpretative canons into eleven patterns of natural arguments - called argumentation schemes - the authors offer a system of argumentation strategies for developing, defending, assessing, and attacking an interpretation. Illustrated through major cases from both common and civil law, this methodology is summarized in diagrams and maps for application to computer sciences. These visuals help make the structures, strategies, and vulnerabilities of legal reasoning accessible to both legal professionals and laypeople.
Read more- Approaches the complex problem of statutory interpretation with an interdisciplinary perspective
- Provides argumentation maps that help readers without a background in law understand the legal reasoning tools proposed
- Uses numerous legal cases to summarize, classify, and illustrate the proposed analytical methods
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‘The authors do not assume extensive prior knowledge of the five varied disciplines that the work integrates, defining key concepts as needed and pointing out relevant areas of controversy in the literature … This work will be of primary interest to researchers in artificial intelligence and law, statutory interpretation, argumentation theory, and pragmatics.’ Emily Da Silva, Canadian Law Library Review
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- Date Published: August 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108454070
- length: 345 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.465kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Interpretation and statutory interpretation
2. Statutory interpretation as problem solving
3. Interpretation and pragmatics: legal ambiguity
4. Pragmatic maxims and presumptions in legal interpretation
5. Arguments of statutory interpretation and argumentation schemes
6. Classification and formalization of interpretative schemes.
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