Legal Reasoning Task

A Legal Reasoning Task is a reasoning task to arrive at a legal judgment.

• AKA: Legal Analysis, Jurisprudential Reasoning.
• Context:
  • It can be used to interpret and apply the law to specific situations.
  • It can be instantiated in a Legal Reasoning Act.
  • It can be used to support a Legal Decisioning Tasks such as rulings, judgments, or legal opinions.
  • It can (often) rely on Legal Precedents, statutes, and legal principles.
  • It can involve the application of Ethical Considerations in some jurisdictions.
  • It can be influenced by Socio-Political Context, especially in areas where the law is ambiguous.
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• Example(s):
  • Contract Validity Inference, such as given evidence E and relevant contractual laws.
  • New Law Constitutionality Inference, such as based on existing constitutional provisions and previous court decisions.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Economic Reasoning Task.
  • an Moral Reasoning Task.
  • a Medical Reasoning Task.
• See: Legal Philosophy, Statutory Interpretation, Legal Corpus Analysis.

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