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Arguing about causes in law: a semi-formal framework for causal arguments

Rūta Liepiņa, Giovanni Sartor, Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 69 - 89

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10506-019-09246-z

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In legal argumentation and liability attribution, disputes over causes play a central role. Legal discussions about causation often have difficulty with cause-in-fact in complex situations, e.g. overdetermination, preemption, omission. We first assess three theories of causation. Then we introduce a...

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ISSN: 0924-8463 1572-8382
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
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