er is an extended abstract of an article submitted to Artificial Intelligence and Law 26-10-00. I thank Trevor Bench-Capon and Giovanni Sartor for their comments on earlier version...
When a conflict of duties arises, a resolution is often sought by determining an ordering of priority or importance. This paper examines how such a conflict resolution works, compa...
: In this paper I recapitulate the ideas of Berman and Hafner (1993) regarding the role of teleology in legal argument. I show how these ideas can be used to address some issues ar...
There is a growing interest in how people conceptualise the legal domain for the purpose of legal knowledge systems. In this paper we discuss four such conceptualisations (referred...