Deontic defeasible reasoning in legal interpretation
Antonino Rotolo, Guido Governatori, Giovanni Sartor · 2015
This paper offers a new logical machinery for reasoning about interpretive canons. We identify some options for modelling reasoning about interpretations and show that interpretative argumentation has a distinctive structure where the claim that a legal text ought or may be interpreted in a certain way can be supported or attacked by arguments, whose conflicts may have to be assessed according to further arguments.