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Hage on a Model of Legal Acts & Computational Systems

By Lawrence Solum

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Jaap Hage (Maastricht University - METRO Institute) has posted A Model of Legal Acts: Part 1: The World of Law and Part 2: The Operation of Legal Acts on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper aims at providing an account of legal acts that forms a suitable starting point for the creation of computational systems that deal with legal acts. The paper is divided into two parts. Because legal acts will be analyzed as intentional changes in the world of law, the ?furniture? of this world, that consists broadly speaking of entities, facts and rules, plays a central role in the analysis. This first part of the paper deals with this furniture and its philosophical underpinnings, and at the same time introduces most of the logical apparatus that will be used to deal with it. The focus in the first part is on static and dynamic legal rules and their interplay in constituting the world of law.

And:

This second part of the paper deals in some detail with the operation of legal acts. Topics dealt with include: power and competence, capacity, form requirements; partial validity, avoidance and representation.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).