Whatever Happened to Hypotheticals?

Bench-Capon, Trevor ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-4398 (2023) Whatever Happened to Hypotheticals? In: ICAIL 2023: Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023-6-19 - 2023-6-23, Braga, Portugal.

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Abstract

In the early days of AI and Law, the use of hypotheticals - imaginary cases constructed to test or explore a particular point - was seen as an important part of legal reasoning. Hypotheticals, have however, attracted increasingly less interest, and have hardly been seen for a decade or more. In this short paper we discuss why hypotheticals disappeared, and the need to reintroduce them if a comprehensive account of reasoning with legal cases is to be produced. The paper includes a discussion of how hypotheticals can be deployed within a recent framework of argumentation schemes describing reasoning with legal cases.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	17 May 2023 09:44
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2023 17:08
DOI:	10.1145/3594536.3595138
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170412