Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking

Preface.- Table of contents.- About the authors.- Part I From the Theory.- 1 The (Onto)logical Structure of Law. A Conceptual Toolkit For Legislators; Jaap Hage.- 2 Conflict of Legal Norms: Definition and Varieties; Lars Lindahl and David Reidhav.- 3 Entailed Norms and the Systematization of Law; Pablo E. Navarro and Jorge L. Rodríguez.- 4 Conservative Coherentist Closure of Legal Systems; Juliano S. A. Maranhão.- 5 Negation in Legislation; Giovanni Battista Ratti.- 6 Open Texture in Law, Legal Certainty and Logical Analysis of Natural Language; Jaromir Savelka and Jakub Harasta.- 7 The Theories of Statutory Construction and Legislative Process in American Jurisprudence; Linda D. Jellum.- 8 Logic and the Directives of Legislative Technique. Some Logical Remarks on the Polish "Principles of Legislative Technique"; Urszula Kosielin ska-Grabowska and Andrzej Grabowski.- 9 The Hidden Acts of Definition in Law - Statutory Definitions and Burden of Persuasion; Fabrizio Macagno and Giovanni Damele.- 10 The Concept of Normative Consequence and Legislative Discourse; Michal Araszkiewicz and Krzysztof Pleszka.- Part II to the Practice of Lawmaking.- 11 Formalising Debates about Law-making Proposals as Practical Reasoning; Henry Prakken.- 12 Logics for Legal Dynamics; Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo.- 13 Representing the Logic of Statutory Rules in the United States; Vern R. Walker, Bernadette C. Lopez, Matthew T. Rutchik, and Julie L. Agris.- 14 Modern Logic as a Tool for Remedying Ambiguities in Legal Documents and Analyzing the Structure of Legal Documents' Contained Definitions; Layman E. Allen and Leon J. Lysaght, Jr..- 15 From the Language of Legislation to Executable Logic Programs; Adam Wyner.- 16 A Rule-Based Graphical Decision Charting Approach to Legal Knowledge Based System; Nitin B. Bilgi.- 17 Logic Oriented Methods for Structuring in the Context of Lawmaking; Vytautas Cyras and Friedrich Lachmayer.- 18 Creating CoReO, the Computer Assisted Copyright Reform Observatory; Ermo Täks, Addi Rull, Anni Säär, and Burkhard Schäfer.- 19 Legal Knowledge Modeling for Managing Legislation in the Semantic Web; Enrico Francesconi.- 20 Computer-aided Legislation Based on Immune-like Processing of Legal Texts; Tomasz Pelech-Pilichowski and Wojciech Cyrul.- Index.