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On Legal Teleological Reasoning
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume: 379
Swansea University Author:
Adam Wyner
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DOI (Published version): 10.3233/faia230948
Abstract
Given a common pool of facts and legal rules, Judges on a panel may form different justifications for decisions, which are then voted upon. It is clear that a Judge’s personal values and purposes play in developing their opinion, which is a form of teleological reasoning. The paper introduces the Va...
| Published in: | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |
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| ISBN: | 9781643684727 9781643684734 |
| ISSN: | 0922-6389 1879-8314 |
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IOS Press
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70979 |
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Given a common pool of facts and legal rules, Judges on a panel may form different justifications for decisions, which are then voted upon. It is clear that a Judge’s personal values and purposes play in developing their opinion, which is a form of teleological reasoning. The paper introduces the Value-based Formal Reasoning (VFR) framework, which describes how a Judge’s personal values can be used in the construction of a justification for a decision. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |

