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Reasoning with Rules and Precedents

A Computational Model of Legal Analysis

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Authors:
  1. L. Karl Branting

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 1-8

  3. A Framework for Integrating Rules and Exemplars

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 9-25

  4. A Formal Model of Ratio Decidendi

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 27-62

  5. GREBE: Integrating Rules and Precedents for Legal Analysis

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 63-109

  6. Examples of GREBE’s Legal Analysis

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 111-134

  7. Evaluation

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 135-144

  8. Related Work

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 145-156

  9. Research Contributions

    • L. Karl Branting
    Pages 157-170

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 171-219
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About this book

Few areas of human expertise are so well understood that they can be completely reduced to general principles. Similarly, there are few domains in which experience is so extensive that every new problem precisely matches a previous problem whose solution is known. When neither rules nor examples are individually sufficient, problem-solving expertise depends on integrating both. This book presents a computational framework for the integration of rules and cases for analytic tasks typified by legal analysis. The book uses the framework for integrating cases and rules as a basis for a new model of legal precedents. This model explains how the theory under which a case is decided controls the case's precedential effect. The framework for integrating rules and cases is implemented in GREBE, a system for legal analysis. The book presents techniques for representing, indexing, and comparing complex cases and for converting justification structures based on rules and case into natural-language text.
This book will interest researchers in artificial intelligence, particularly those involved in case-based reasoning, artificial intelligence and law, and formal models of argumentation, and to scholars in legal philosophy, jurisprudence, and analogical reasoning.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

    L. Karl Branting

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reasoning with Rules and Precedents

  • Book Subtitle: A Computational Model of Legal Analysis

  • Authors: L. Karl Branting

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2848-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6105-3Published: 31 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5374-9Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2848-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 219

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

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