Summary |
"Formalism about Legal Reasoning" refers to the use of (often
logic-based) formalisms to shed light on legal
reasoning. "Formal Models of Legal Reasoning," in contrast refers to
the use of such formalisms to model actual legal reasoning. Some works
fit into both categories. The former is also apt for discussions of
the limits of the latter. Both categories apply best to modeling
or shedding light on judicial reasoning, or on the analysis of legal
texts (be they statutes, constitutions [written or not], regulations, or
exegeses of these), but are less applicable to modeling or shedding
light on the legislative or regulatory processes which produce these. |