This article reviews legal applications of logic, with a particularly marked concern for logical
models of legal argument. We argue that the law is a rich test bed and important application …

The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper
provides commentaries on landmark papers from the first decade of that journal. The topics …

A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence
Examines three areas in which abductive reasoning is especially important: medicine …

The study of argumentation has primarily focused on logical and dialectical approaches,
with minimal attention given to the rhetorical facets of argument. Rhetorical Argumentation …

This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic,
dialectical, epistemic, and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between …

We provide a retrospective of 25 years of the International Conference on AI and Law, which
was first held in 1987. Fifty papers have been selected from the thirteen conferences and …

This article reviews formal systems that regulate persuasion dialogues. In such dialogues
two or more participants aim to resolve a difference of opinion, each trying to persuade the …

This article carries out a formal study of dialogue games for argumentation. A formal
framework for such games is proposed which imposes an explicit reply structure on …

Recent developments in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence demand a new look
into the foundational notion of dialog around which the new dialectical models of …

This paper presents dialectical proof theories for Dung's pre-ferred semantics of defeasible
argumentation. The proof theories have the form of argument games for testing membership …