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Causal Models of Legal Cases

Ruta Liepina Orcid Logo, Giovanni Sartor, Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume: 10791, Pages: 172 - 186

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_11

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Legal causation is a complex aspect of legal reasoning. Due to its significant role in the attribution of legal responsibility, it is important that there is a clear understanding of the requirements for establishing and reasoning with causal links. This paper presents preliminary results of modelli...

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Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN: 9783030001773 9783030001780
ISSN: 0302-9743 1611-3349
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018
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description Legal causation is a complex aspect of legal reasoning. Due to its significant role in the attribution of legal responsibility, it is important that there is a clear understanding of the requirements for establishing and reasoning with causal links. This paper presents preliminary results of modelling causal arguments based on the legal decisions with particular focus on physical causation. We introduce a semi-formal framework for reasoning with causation that uses strict and defeasible rules for modelling factual causation arguments in legal cases. We further discuss the complex relation between formal, common sense, norm and policy based considerations of causation in legal decision making with particular focus on their role in comparing alternative causal explanations.
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