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DTIC ADA175108: The COUNSELOR Project: Understanding Legal Argument.

Although argument in law has occurred for hundreds of years, it remains a difficult concept to define. We would like to model the process an attorney undergoes when he argues for a given case; the context he works in, the techniques he utilizes, and the goals be strives for. To begin to understand this phenomena we must first examine the nature of argument in itself; why and how it occurs. Only within that framework can we begin to look at the specialized field of legal argument. At that point we can delineate categories or types of legal argument, what we might call meta-level dialectic strategies, specific tactics, and general argumentation tools an attorney might find useful. We shall conclude with thoughts toward an AI model and its interaction with other elements of a complete legal reasoning system.

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