Legal formalization is a necessary step for automated legal reasoning because it aims to
capture the meaning of legal texts in a machine-readable form. Therefore, there are many …

Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body
of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important …

Jury nullification traditionally refers to the jury's power to deliver a verdict that is deliberately
contrary to the law's clearly dictated outcome. A spirited scholarship is built around this …

Abstract “Hard cases make bad law” is one of the most famous aphorisms in Anglo-
American law. Its insight is that when strict application of a generally sound law would …

Humans have this extraordinary cognitive ability: They imagine inexistent objects, they treat
them as if they were real, and by doing so they make them real. They thus give rise to a …

Legal theorists tend to focus on disagreement over the law, and yet a theory of law should
also explain why lawyers and judges agree on the law as often as they do. To that end, this …

Legal theorists tend to focus on disagreement over the law, and yet Legal agreement; legal
a theory of law should also explain why lawyers and judges agree positivism; law as …

Judges, commissions, members of Congress and scholars have debated whether the Ninth
Circuit's exceptional size leads to inconsistent, unpredictable decision making that …

Legal formalization is a necessary step for automated legal reasoning because it aims to
capture the meaning of legal texts in a machine-readable form. Therefore, there are many …