Against Symbolization

Risinger, D. Michael

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2032294

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Against Symbolization

D. Michael Risinger

Seton Hall University School of Law

March 31, 2012

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2032294

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This paper is a version of a presentation made at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law at the University of Pittsburgh in June of 2011. The paper explores the limits of formal symbolization as a substitute for natural language in a variety of legal contexts, including proposed legal uses of decision theory in trials, whether computer aided or not. It blames Learned Hand’s famous “Hand formula” for negligence for planting the seed of feckless symbolization in the field of law, a seed that subsequently has grown wildly in many areas.

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Date posted: April 1, 2012

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Risinger, D. Michael, Against Symbolization (March 31, 2012). Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2032294. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2032294 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2032294

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