Source Norms and Self-regulated Institutions

  • Authors:
  • Rossella Rubino;Giovanni Sartor

  • Affiliations:
  • CIRSFID, Bologna, Italy 40121;CIRSFID, Bologna, Italy 40121 and European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy 50016

  • Venue:
  • Computable Models of the Law
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we shall focus on an important class of constitutive norms, which we shall call source-norms, namely those norms establishing what norms, on basis of what properties, validly belong to a normative system. Institutions including their own source-norms --- here called Self-Regulated Institutions--- are able to incorporate dynamically and autonomously new norms in their normative systems. After describing these concepts, we shall present a formal model of source-norms built by exploiting the PRATOR system for defeasible argumentation and we shall try to apply it to electronic institutions.