Publication details
Argumentation 2011
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
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| Description | Argumentation, reasoning and justification have always been inherent parts of lawyers’ work. Lawyers themselves are obviously well aware of the fact and would almost unanimously acknowledge that enhancing one’s knowledge and skills in argumentation has a direct impact on the quality of their work. The theoretical approach to the argumentation is usually concerned with the study of the nature and structure of arguments, development of models and frameworks of argumentation and assessment of ways to strengthen or attack arguments. The ambition of the conference is to establish a permanent platform to discuss and explore the alternative methods of legal argumentation, i.e. those that are not regularly employed in everyday legal practice, but would prove extremely valuable if adopted. It is thus our intention to bring new stimuli to both the approaches to the argumentation by showing that the outcomes of both are valuable and can be combined in coherent theories. The conference consists of four workshops/streams each specialized in a specific and unique method of studying legal argumentation: Formal Methods in Legal Reasoning Law and Literature Law and Language Visualization of Law. |