Abstract The United Nations treaty bodies were established to monitor the implementation of human rights by states parties. Through ‘General Comments’ – legally non-binding clarifications obligations they have also influenced development international law for example, on right life and climate impacts. We address this phenomenon establishing a twofold argument. First, we argue that General Comm...

Among the various solutions and tools for participatory law-making, an interesting one is being set forth by the LexiPation project. Basically the idea is to integrate the Living Labs methodology with an existing technology platform allowing to conduct moderated online discourses, to define a workflow of citizens’ involvement at the different stages of the legislative process. This paper descri...

We describe an integrate-and-fire attractor model of the decision-related activity of ventral premotor cortex (VPC) neurons during a vibrotactile frequency comparison task [Romo et al. (2004)Neuron, 41, 165-173]. Populations of neurons for each decision in a biased competition attractor network receive a bias input that depends on the firing rates of VPC neurons that code for the two vibrotacti...

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In this paper the ASPIC framework for argumentation-based inference is used for formally reconstructing two legal debates about law-making proposals: an opinion of a legal scholar on a Dutch legislative proposal and a US commonlaw judicial decision on whether an existing common law rule should be followed or distinguished. Both debates are formalised as practical reasoning, with versions of the...