Open Texture in Law, Legal Certainty and Logical Analysis of Natural Language

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Authors	HARAŠTA Jakub ŠAVELKA Jaromír
Year of publication	2015
Type	Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation	HARAŠTA, Jakub and Jaromír ŠAVELKA. Open Texture in Law, Legal Certainty and Logical Analysis of Natural Language. In Michał Araszkiewicz, Krzysztof Pleszka. Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer International Publishing, 2015, p. 159-171. Legisprudence Library sv. 2. ISBN 978-3-319-19574-2. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19575-9.
Attached files	Harasta_Savelka_RIV_kapitola.pdf
Description	This paper uses logical analysis of natural language to analyse a dilemma every legislator faces. This dilemma presents itself as a gap between what is literally prescribed by a legal rule and what goal had the legislator in mind when enacting it. This dilemma is described in detail by using Hart's example of a rule prohibiting vehicles from entering the park. Then, we discuss how logical analysis of natural language could be used in order to mitigate, or at least assess, severity of the dilemma passed from a legislator to a decision maker.
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