Representing teleological structure in case-based legal reasoning: the missing link

  • Authors:
  • Donald H. Berman;Carole D. Hafner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

We argue that robust case-based models of legal knowledge that represent the way in which practicing professionals use legal decisions must contain a deeper domain model that represents the purposes behind the rules articulated in the cases. We propose a model for representing the teleological components of legal decisions, and we suggest a method for utilizing this representation in a HYPO-like framework for case-based legal argument.