The Quest for Coherence in Judicial Reasoning

ARASZKIEWICZ, Michal a Jaromír ŠAVELKA. The Quest for Coherence in Judicial Reasoning. i-lex. Rome, 2012, roč. 7, č. 17, s. 173-190. ISSN 1825-1927.

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Quest for Coherence in Judicial Reasoning

Autoři

ARASZKIEWICZ, Michal (616 Polsko) a Jaromír ŠAVELKA (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

i-lex, Rome, 2012, 1825-1927

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50500 5.5 Law

Stát vydavatele

Itálie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/12:00062132

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

coherence constraint satisfaction judicial reasoning

Štítky

rivok

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Anotace

V originále

There are two fundamentally distinct approaches towards modeling of legal reasoning – the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The main difference lies in the method of acquiring the elements which consequently constitute the model. This paper aims to compare the approaches as regards the resulting model represented in the coherence as constraint satisfaction network. At first the top-down approach is applied to the Court of Justice European Union case of Bezpečnostní softwarová asociace – Svaz softwarové ochrany v. Ministerstvo kultury ČR and the resulting model is presented and briefly assessed. The very same case is then modeled using the bottom-up approach. While both models that have been created differ quite significantly they display surprisingly similar features. Both models suggest that the court provides the interpretation of key terms without grounding it in the provisions of authoritative texts. Thus, it either seems to be the case that there is a large portion of implicit reasoning both models fail to express or that the reasoning of the court is actually not grounded in authoritative text.