Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers
about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law. All of the papers
were written after the publication of the author's Reasoning with Rules
and supplement the issues addressed therein. Some of the papers are new;
others have been revised substantially after the publication of their
original versions. The emphasis is on analysis, not on logical
technicalities.
Studies in Legal Logic contains chapters about the nature of norms,
the role of coherence in the law, the nature of defeasibility, the role
of dialectics in law and artificial intelligence, the statics and
dynamics of the law, and the consistency of rules. Moreover, it contains
a new, simplified and yet more powerful version of Reason-based Logic
and extensive examples of how it can be used for the analysis of legal
reasoning. The examples deal with legal theory construction, case-based
reasoning, and judicial proof.
Studies in Legal Logic is primarily intended for researchers and
students in the fields of analytical jurisprudence and artificial
intelligence and law. It should also be of interest for readers
interested in the philosophy of logic and epistemology.