New Approaches to Private Law and Legal Reasoning

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interdisciplinary Field of Research

Analysis of the Foundations of Private Law and Legal Reasoning in Civil and Common Law

'New Approaches to Private Law and Legal Reasoning' is an interdisciplinary research field investigated at the Chair for Global Legal History, Private Law, and Computational Legal Theory at the University of Hamburg.

On the basis of legal dogmatics, legal history, comparative law and legal logic, the foundations of private law and legal reasoning in Civil and Common Law are analyzed. To this end, annual conferences are held jointly with Harvard Law School. For more information: Harvard-Hamburg Conferences.

The research is directed by Prof. Dr. Matthias Armgardt (University of Hamburg) together with Prof. Dr. Scott Brewer (Harvard Law School) and Prof. Dr. Henry Smith (Harvard Law School).

selected Publications by Prof. Armgardt

Rahman Shahid, Armgardt Matthias, Nordtveit Kvernenes Hans Christian (eds.), New developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic – from Ancient Law to modern Legal Systems, Springer 2022.
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Armgardt Matthias, Busche Hubertus (eds.), Recht und Billigkeit – Zur Geschichte der Beurteilung ihres Verhältnisses, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2021.
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Andreas Holger, Armgardt Matthias, Günther Mario: Counterfactuals for causal responsibility in legal contexts, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2022.
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Armgardt Matthias, A Formal Model for Analogies in Civil Law Reasoning, in: Matthias Armgardt, Shahid Rahman, Hans Christian Nordveit (eds.), New developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic – from Ancient Law to modern Legal Systems, Springer 2022, p. 171-183.
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Armgardt Matthias, Causation in Law, Overdetermination and Normative Ideal Worlds, in: Dov Gabbay, Lorenzo Magnani, Woosuk Park, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (eds.), Natural Arguments: A Tribute to John Woods, College Publications, King’s College, London 2019, p. 699-708.
Armgardt Matthias, Sartor Giovanni, Lorini Emiliano, Reasoning about Conditions in STIT Logic, in: Jan Broersen et al. (eds.), Deontic Logic and Normative Systems. 14th International Conference, DEON 2018, College Publications, London 2018, p. 15-32.

supervised Dissertations

Preisig Michael, Practical Reasoning. A Model for Normative and Empirical Reasoning, Dissertation Hamburg (in preparation for publication).
Kaufhold Maria, Hypothetische Kausalität und Kontrafakten. Eine interdisziplinäre Analyse zur Beachtlichkeit von Reserveursachen im zivilen Schadensrecht, Dissertation Konstanz, Studien zum Zivilrecht, Barbara Dauner-Lieb et al. (eds.), Volume 50 (December 2022).
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Sievers Juliele, Logical Concepts in Legal Positivism - Legal Norms from a Philosophical Perspective, Dissertation Konstanz, Law and Society, Band 4, College Publications 2016.
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