Multi-criteria analysis in legal reasoning / Bengt Lindell, Professor of Civil and Criminal Procedure, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2017
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Multi-criteria analysis in legal reasoning / Bengt Lindell, Professor of Civil and Criminal Procedure, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2017]
Call Number
K213 .L46 2017
ISBN
9781786430199 (cased)
1786430193 (cased)
9781786430205 (eBook)
1786430193 (cased)
9781786430205 (eBook)
Description
xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)964290605
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
vii
List of abbreviations
viii
List of figures
x
List of tables
xi
1.
Overall assessments and balancing of interests
1
1.1.
Introduction
1
1.2.
Balancing and combined weighting
9
1.3.
Examples of balancing of interests
13
1.4.
Overall assessments
21
1.5.
What are the differences between balancing of interests and overall assessments?
26
1.6.
Summary and conclusions
42
2.
Multi-criteria analysis
45
2.1.
Introduction
45
2.2.
Different forms of MCA and other methods -- an overview
51
2.3.
steps of MCA
55
2.4.
Summary and conclusions
77
3.
Intuition
80
3.1.
Introduction
80
3.2.
Different types of intuition
81
3.3.
Parallel thought processes
87
3.4.
Heuristics -- shortcuts to decisions
89
3.5.
Intuition versus mathematics
92
3.6.
Summary and conclusions
95
4.
Legal examples of decision-making with SAW
98
4.1.
Introduction
98
4.2.
RB as decision process
98
4.3.
Video conference or court session?
104
4.4.
Section 36, the Contracts Act
109
4.5.
Sentencing
127
4.6.
Fuzzy logic
136
4.7.
Summary and conclusions
147
5.
Decision-making under uncertainty
152
5.1.
Introduction
152
5.2.
Risk, hazard and uncertainty
153
5.3.
utility of a decision
161
5.4.
Probability and utility in an integrated assessment -- an example using `the best interests of the child'
165
5.5.
Utility theory and burden of proof
171
5.6.
Summary and conclusions
174
6.
Evidentiary aspects
176
6.1.
Introduction
176
6.2.
epistemology of evidence evaluation
184
6.3.
Evaluation of testimonies
187
6.4.
Different aspects of evidence
192
6.5.
Fuzzy logic -- an example of application
194
6.6.
Summary and conclusions
206
Bibliography
211
Index
219