Fundamental legal concepts: a formal and teleological characterisation

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Sartor

  • Affiliations:
  • Marie-Curie Professor of Legal informatics and Legal Theory, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We shall introduce a set of fundamental legal concepts, providing a definition of each of them. This set will include, besides the usual deontic modalities (obligation, prohibition and permission), the following notions: obligative rights (rights related to other's obligations), permissive rights, erga-omnes rights, normative conditionals, liability rights, different kinds of legal powers, potestative rights (rights to produce legal results), result-declarations (acts intended to produce legal determinations), and sources of the law.