Applied legal reasoning
USE FOR: Legal reasoning formalization — statutory interpretation, case-based reasoning, argumentation frameworks, defeasible rules, deontic norms, regulatory compliance, and their connection to provenance chains, governance structures, and formal verification for legal-adjacent AI systems. DO NOT USE FOR: formalising those legal models in Lean (use @lean-applied-reasoning); deontic reasoning specifically (use @ai-causal-deontic); security policy (use @applied-data-information-security). TRIGGERS: statutory interpretation, case-based reasoning, argumentation framework, defeasible rule, deontic norm, legal reasoning, regulatory.From its SKILL.md
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Legal Reasoning
Formal frameworks for legal analysis, argumentation, normative reasoning, and their intersection with formal verification and AI governance.
Routing
- USE FOR: Legal reasoning formalization — statutory interpretation, case-based reasoning, argumentation frameworks, defeasible rules, deontic norms, regulatory compliance, and their connection to provenance chains, governance structures, and formal verification for legal-adjacent AI systems.
- DO NOT USE FOR: formalising those legal models in Lean (use @lean-applied-reasoning); deontic reasoning specifically (use @ai-causal-deontic); security policy (use @applied-data-information-security).
- TRIGGERS: statutory interpretation, case-based reasoning, argumentation framework, defeasible rule, deontic norm, legal reasoning, regulatory.
Workflow
- Classify the legal task: statutory interpretation, case-based reasoning, argumentation, or deontic-norm modelling.
- Pick the matching framework (ASPIC+, Carneades, defeasible-logic, deontic-action) from the body.
- Apply the framework; document the argument structure + defeaters.
- Hand off: to
@ai-causal-deonticfor deontic-logic encoding, to@lean-applied-reasoningfor Lean formalisation, to@lean-zettelkasten.
Recovery & STOP
- STOP if the question is about pure deontic logic — delegate to
@ai-causal-deontic. - STOP if the legal regime is jurisdiction-specific and not in the body — escalate to
@research-council. - STOP if security/privacy policy dominates — delegate to
@applied-data-information-security.
Handoffs
- Predecessors:
agent:gateway,skill:lean-research. - Successors:
skill:lean-applied-reasoning,skill:ai-causal-deontic,skill:lean-knowledge-formalization.
Detailed reference
Full content for applied-legal-reasoning lives in
references/applied-legal-reasoning-handbook.md.
Load that file when the skill is convened; the SKILL.md only carries
the dispatch contract and the parts index.
| Section | Topic |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Legal Reasoning Paradigms |
| Part 2 | Argumentation Frameworks |
| Part 3 | Defeasible Legal Rules |
| Part 4 | Statutory Interpretation |
| Part 5 | Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) |
| Part 6 | Regulatory Compliance Formalization |
| Part 7 | AI & Legal Reasoning |
| Part 8 | Cross-References |
See also
../../references/applied-legal-reasoning-handbook.md— Full handbook (extracted from this skill)../lean-applied-reasoning/SKILL.md— Successor../ai-causal-deontic/SKILL.md— Successor../lean-knowledge-formalization/SKILL.md— Successor
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