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Argumentation in AI and Law: Editors' Introduction

Argumentation in AI and Law: Editors' Introduction Artificial Intelligence and Law (2006) 13: 1–8  Springer 2006 DOI 10.1007/s10506-006-9007-z TREVOR J.M. BENCH-CAPON and PAUL E. DUNNE Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK E-mail: tbc@csc.liv.ac.uk 1. Overview Argument is central to law: legal disputes arise out of a disagreement between two parties and, since the disappearance of trials by ordeal and combat, such disputes are resolved by the parties to the dispute presenting arguments for their position to an agreed arbiter, who will typically justify the choice of the arguments he accepts with an argument of his own, intended to convince superior courts and the public at large. Given the centrality of argument to law, it is unsurprising that AI systems intended to model legal reasoning have found it necessary to model argument. This volume contains a collection of papers representing some of the very latest work on argumentation in AI and Law. The papers derive from a workshop run in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on AI and Law, held in Bologna in June 2005. The papers have since been significantly extended and revised for publication here. In this introduction we will try to provide some of the context in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence and Law Springer Journals

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Copyright © 2006 by Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
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Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law; Philosophy of Law; Legal Aspects of Computing; Information Storage and Retrieval
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Artificial Intelligence and Law (2006) 13: 1–8  Springer 2006 DOI 10.1007/s10506-006-9007-z TREVOR J.M. BENCH-CAPON and PAUL E. DUNNE Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK E-mail: tbc@csc.liv.ac.uk 1. Overview Argument is central to law: legal disputes arise out of a disagreement between two parties and, since the disappearance of trials by ordeal and combat, such disputes are resolved by the parties to the dispute presenting arguments for their position to an agreed arbiter, who will typically justify the choice of the arguments he accepts with an argument of his own, intended to convince superior courts and the public at large. Given the centrality of argument to law, it is unsurprising that AI systems intended to model legal reasoning have found it necessary to model argument. This volume contains a collection of papers representing some of the very latest work on argumentation in AI and Law. The papers derive from a workshop run in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on AI and Law, held in Bologna in June 2005. The papers have since been significantly extended and revised for publication here. In this introduction we will try to provide some of the context in

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