New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic

Part 1. Historic Roots.- 1. What is to have Knowledge of Roman Legal Methods and Reasoning? (Geoffrey Samuel).- 2. The Use of Logic for Creating Fact Patterns in Roman Legal Writings (Markus Winkler).- 3. A Logical Framework for The Islamic Law (Mohammad Ardeshir & Fatemeh Nabavi).- 4. The Formal Evolution of Islamic Juridical Dialectic: a Brief Glimpse (Walter Edward Young).- 5. Independent Reasoning in Law: The Jewish Tradition (Joseph E. David).- Part 2. Contemporary Law.- 6. Rethinking Interpretative Arguments (Hális Alves do Nascimento França).- 7. A Logic for the Interpretation of Private International Law (Alessandra Malerba, Antonino Rotolob, and Guido Governatori).- 8. A Formal Model for Analogies in Civil Law Reasoning (Matthias Armgardt).- 9. Approaching an Analysis of Reasoning by Analogy (Hans Christian Nordtveit Kvernenes).- 10. Elements for a Dialogical Approach on Parallel Reasoning. A Case Study of Spanish Civil Law (Maria Dolors Martínez -Cazalla; Tania Menéndez-Martín).- 11. Abductive Inference in Legal Reasoning: Resolving the Question of Res Ipsa Loquitur’s Procedural Effect (Douglas Lind).- Part 3. Deontic Logic, Legal Reasoning, Normativity).- 12. Common Law Precedent and the Logic of Reasons (Federico L.G. Faroldi).- 13. Reasoning with Rules and Rights: Term-Modal Deontic Logic (Stef Frijters & Joke Meheus; Frederik Van De Putte„).- 14. Dyadic Deontic Logic in HOL: Faithful Embedding and Meta-Theoretical Experiments (Christoph Benzmüller, Ali Farjami, and Xavier Parent).- 15. On the Role of Past Treatment of Terms From Written Laws in Legal Reasoning (Jaromir Savelka; Kevin D. Ashley).- 16. Jørgensen’s Dilemma in the interface between Legal Positivism and the Natural Law tradition (Juliele Maria Sievers).- 17. Coping with inconsistencies in legal reasoning (Max Urchs).