The pleadings game: formalizing procedural justice

  • Authors:
  • Thomas F. Gordon

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '93 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The Pleadings Game is a normative formalization and computational model of civil pleading, founded in Robert Alexy's discourse theory of legal argumentation. The consequences of arguments and counterarguments are modelled using Geffner and Pearl's non-monotonic logic, conditional entailment. Discourse is focussed using the concepts of issue and relevance. Conflicts between arguments can be resolved by arguing about the validity and priority rules, at any level. The computational model is fully implemented and has been tested using examples from Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code.