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Call for Papers
“Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation”
Special Issue of the journal, Informal Logic (ISSN: 0824-2577)
www.argdiap.pl/InformalLogic
“Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation” will explore the current state of the art in the study legal argumentation which is characterized by the applicability of a great variety of concepts, distinctions, frameworks and methods. Our aim is to provide a venue for the exchange of ideas from different research perspectives, including AI and Law, argumentation theory, and legal theory.
This volume is the 2nd special issue published under auspices of the ArgDiaP organisation (www.argdiap.pl). The first one, published as an issue of the Argumentation journal (www.argdiap.pl/argumentation), was dedicated to the research of the Polish School of Argumentation. That special issue also included the School’s Manifesto (www.argdiap.pl/manifesto) co-authored by 55 researchers from 20 institutions all across Poland.
The special issue will continue exciting discussions which took place at the 1st MET-ARG workshop (Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation www.argdiap.pl/metarg2014) organised in Kraków in 2014 in conjunction with JURIX 2014 (27th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems www.conference.jurix.nl/2014/) and CMNA 2014 (14th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument www.cmna.info/CMNA14/).
The topics include, but are not limited to:
- The applicability of formal and computational models of legal reasoning
- Bridging gaps between various methods (models, frameworks) employed in the study of legal argumentation
- The scope and limits of applying tools for representation of formal argumentation models
- Problems and challenges of abstract and structured legal argumentation
- Methodology for research on argumentation schemes in legal reasoning
- Contrasting goals of and constraints on differing methodological approaches
- Arguing about rules, cases, evidence (Does the method differ in research on legal argumentation in different domains?)
- Methods of legal argumentation mining
- Heuristics, biases and fallacies in legal argumentation and their role in the research on argumentation
- Theories and metatheories of legal argumentation
- The language of legal argumentation
The submitted papers must present original research which has not been published and is not currently under review to other journals or conferences. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of a panel of experts and selected on the basis of the paper’s originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. The deadline for the submissions is 26th Nov 2015.
Author Guidelines
Submissions to the Special Issue on Methodologies for Research on Legal Argumentation must be made as PDF document using templateta guide template for formatting available at www.argdiap.pl/InformalLogic, must adhere to the Informal Logic submission guidelines for blind review (www.ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/about/submissions), and should have at least 10 and not exceed 15 pages (5,000–7,500 words) in length.
Papers should be submitted through our dedicated EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metarg1
Deadlines
Paper submission deadline: 26 November 2015 14 February 2016
Special issue’s production: September 2016
Guest Editors
Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
michal.araszkiewicz (at) uj.edu.pl
Tomasz Zurek, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland
zurek (at) kft.umcs.lublin.pl
Panel of Experts
Kevin Ashley University of Pittsburgh, US
Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
Floris Bex, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Katarzyna Budzynska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & University of Dundee, UK
Marcello Ceci, University College Cork, UK
Giovanni Damele, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Duarte d’Almeida, University of Edinburgh, UK
Eveline Feteris, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University, US– Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
Jaap Hage, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Marcin Koszowy, University of Bialystok, Poland
Fabrizio Macagno, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University & University of Groningen, Netherlands
Thomas da Rosa de Bustamante, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Harvey Siegel, University of Miami, US
Giovanni Tuzet, Bocconi University, Italy
Vern R. Walker, Hofstra University in New York, US
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada
More details at www.argdiap.pl/InformalLogic
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