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Publication details [#60965]
Canale, Damiano and Giovanni Tuzet. 2016. What the legislature did not say. Legislative intentions and counterfactuals in legal argumentation. Journal of Argumentation in Context 5 (3) : 249–270.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/jaic
Annotation
The paper is about the uses of the argument from legislative counterfactual intention, in the field of legal interpretation and argumentation. After presenting the argument from intention in general, it distinguishes the varities of the argument from counterfactual legislative intention and discusses their justification conditions.