Time, defeasible logic and belief revision: Pathways to legal dynamics
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Tamargo, LH
Martinez, DC
Rotolo, A
Governatori, G
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2021
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In order to properly model norm change in the law, temporal aspects of legal dynamics must be considered. Since there exist several time-based features of law that should be studied, we discuss two interesting approaches: one based on defeasible logic and the other based on belief revision. Each of these makes use of one of the two classic forms of reasoning about time: point-based and interval-based. Both formalisms provide the necessary logical infrastructure to address the characterization of complex behaviour of legal dynamics.In order to properly model norm change in the law, temporal aspects of legal dynamics must be considered. Since there exist several time-based features of law that should be studied, we discuss two interesting approaches: one based on defeasible logic and the other based on belief revision. Each of these makes use of one of the two classic forms of reasoning about time: point-based and interval-based. Both formalisms provide the necessary logical infrastructure to address the characterization of complex behaviour of legal dynamics.
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Journal Title
Journal of Applied Logics- IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications
Volume
8
Issue
4
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© The Individual authors and College Publications 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation