Resumen de Formal Models of Statutory Interpretation in Multilingual Legal Systems
Using the case of Buchanan v. Babco, the paper argues that multi-lingual settings are particularly suitable for disclosing cognitive and reasoning tasks that lawyers have to perform when interpreting a statute. It shows how approaches developed in computer science to model the way in which conflicting ontologies or worldviews are merged and inconsistencies between them repaired can also help our understanding of statutory interpretation in law.
