Representing legal rules and arguments in propositional logic: Part 1 (Scott Brewer, Giovanni Sartor)

Themes covered in this session:

1. Representing legal rules
2. Representing legal arguments
3. From natural language to formal representations

Projections

• Brewer, Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic: Part 1 (link)
• Brewer, Indent-right method of natural language representation of rules, with exercises (link)

Readings

• Tapscott, Elementary Applied Symbolic Logic, chapter 6, A Logic-English translation Guide (link)
• Tapscott, Elementary Applied Symbolic Logic, chapter 18, Some Translation Aids (link)

Cases

• Dale Horning (link)
• Statutory background for Dale Horning, UCC 2-207 and Official Comments (link)