Formal models of statutory interpretation in multilingual legal systems

Burkhard Schafer

doi:10.1093/slr/hmx013

Formal models of statutory interpretation in multilingual legal systems

Burkhard Schafer

School of Law

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Using the case of Buchanan v. Babco, the paper argues that multi-lingual settings are particularly apt for disclosing underlying cognitive and reasoning tasks that lawyers have to perform when interpreting a statute. It shows how approaches developed in computer science to model the way in which conflicting ontologies or worldviews are merged and inconsistencies between them repaired

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	310-328
Journal	Statute Law Review
Volume	38
Issue number	3
Early online date	6 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmx013
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2017

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Laurie, G., Craufurd-Smith, R., Guadamuz, A., MacQueen, H., Schafer, B. & Waelde, C.
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- School of Law - Personal Chair of Computational Legal Theory
- Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory
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