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    Title: Providers’ liabilities and the right to be forgotten  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: I address the novelties contained in the “Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation”, recently advanced by the EU Commission, with regard to providers’ liabilities and the right to be forgotten. First I consider how the ...
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    Title: Intentional Compliance with Normative Systems  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I will address a challenge to mentalistic theories of norms, such as that developed by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rosaria Conte, namely, the existence of large normative systems, which successfully direct people’s thoughts ...
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    Title: Providers’ Liabilities in the New EU Data Protection Regulation: A threat to internet freedoms?  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: In this paper I shall consider certain aspects of the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation recently advanced by the EU Commission, which is meant to substitute the existing Data Protection Directive as well as the ...
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    Title: Social Networks e Responsabilità del Provider  Author(s): ROSATI, Eleonora; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Nelle pagine seguenti, dopo aver brevemente descritto le reti sociali e i diversi soggetti e interessi in gioco, si adotterà una prospettiva normativa, indicando quale disciplina potrebbe meglio regolare tali interessi, ...
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    Title: Peer-to-Peer Privacy Violations and ISP Liability: Data protection in the user-generated web  Author(s): VIOLA DE AZEVEDO CUNHA, Mario; MARIN, Luisa; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Since the adoption of the e-Commerce Directive, web hosting has dramatically changed. Usergenerated content is usually uploaded into platforms that facilitate and support users in preparing content and making it available. ...
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    Title: Temporal Reasoning and MAS  Author(s): SMITH, Clara; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: In this paper we investigate if it is possible and useful to reason about time within social/normative multi-agent systems (MAS) by taking into account the general guidelines of tense logic. We focus on the combination of ...
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    Title: Classifications and the Law: Doctrinal Classifications vs. Computational Ontologies  Author(s): FERNÁNDEZ-BARRERA, Meritxell; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper addresses legal classifications by comparing legal doctrine and computational ontologies. In recent years legal ontologies have attracted a growing interest, not only from knowledge engineers but also from legal ...
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    Title: A Dynamic View of Litigation. Agent-Based Simulation Insights on Medical Liability Cases  Author(s): MAYOR, Eunate; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: All substantive areas of law with no exception have a common concern for the processes by which legal disputes get resolved. Naturally, the success of any particular litigation strategy in a legal dispute depends on a ...
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    Title: A Sufficientist Approach to Reasonableness in Legal Decision-Making and Judicial Review  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I shall argue for a sufficientist understanding of reasonableness in legal decision-making: cognitive or moral optimality are not required for reasonableness; what needed is just that a determination—be it epistemic or ...
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    Title: Why Lawyers Are Nice (or Nasty). A Game-Theoretical Argumentation Exercise  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni; RUDNIANSKI, Michel; ROTOLO, Antonino; RIVERET, Régis; MAYOR, Eunate Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This contribution introduces a novel approach to study legal interactions, legal professions, and legal institutions, by combining argumentation, game theory and evolution. We consider a population of lawyers, having ...
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    Title: Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I shall first introduce the idea of reasoning, and of defeasible reasoning in particular. I shall then argue that cognitive agents need to engage in defeasible reasoning for coping with a complex and changing environment. ...
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    Title: Legality Policies and Theories of Legality: From “Bananas” to Radbruch’s Formula  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I shall argue that issue of legal validity or legality (I will use these two terms as synonymous) can be addressed by taking an inferential stand, namely, by considering under what preconditions (antecedents) the legality ...
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    Title: More on Presumptions and Burdens of Proof  Author(s): PRAKKEN, Henry; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper extends our previous logical analysis of presumptions and burden of proof by studying the force of a presumption once counterevidence has been offered. In the jurisprudential literature different accounts of ...
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    Title: Legal Concepts: An Inferential Approach  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The inferential and eliminative analysis of legal concepts proposed by Alf Ross will be connected to the views of theoretical concepts in science advanced by Frank Ramsey and Rudolf Carnap. Consequently, the mere ...
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    Title: Sistemi basati sulla conoscenza giuridica e servizi pubblici  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Dopo aver brevemente introdotto i sistemi basati sulla conoscenza giuridica, se illustrer`a l’uso nella pubblica amministrazione, in particolare per la gestione e la fornitura di servizi pubblici. Di tali sistemi la ricerca ...
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    Title: Heuristics in Argumentation: A Game-Theoretical Investigation  Author(s): PRAKKEN, Henry; RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper provides a game-theoretical investigation on how to determine optimal strategies in dialogue games for argumentation. To make our ideas as widely applicable as possible, we adopt an abstract dialectical setting ...
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    Title: Source Norms and Self-Regulated Institutions  Author(s): RUBINO, Rossella; SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: In this paper we shall focus on an important class of constitutive norms, which we shall call source-norms, namely those norms establishing what norms, on basis of what properties, validly belong to a normative system. ...
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    Title: The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology (a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications, and ...
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    Title: Success Chances in Argument Games: A Probabilistic Approach to Legal Disputes  Author(s): RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, Giovanni; PRAKKEN, Henry; ROTH, Bram Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The outcome of a legal dispute, namely, the decision of its adjudicator, is uncertain, and both parties develop their strategies on the basis of their appreciation of the probability that the adjudicator will accept their ...
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    Title: Legal Validity: An Inferential Analysis  Author(s): SARTOR, Giovanni Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: I will argue that the concept of (valid) law is a normative notion, irreducible to any factual description. Its conceptual function is that of relating certain (alternative sets of) properties a norm may possess to ...