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International Symposium on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web

RuleML 2014: Rules on the Web. From Theory to Applications pp 329–338Cite as

Legal Responsibility for the Acts of Others: A Logical Analysis

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This paper offers a logical analysis of two cases where legal responsibility may emerge for the acts of others: (a) reflex responsibility, and (b) responsibility in the negotiorum gestio doctrine. The current contribution works within a fresh multi-modal system where the new operators are introduced for denoting intentions and actions in the interest of other agents, and the objectively ideal sets of actions for agents.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Faculty of Law, University of La Plata, Argentina

    Clara Smith

  2. CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

    Erica Calardo, Antonino Rotolo & Giovanni Sartor

  3. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

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  1. Department of Information Studies, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Antonis Bikakis

  2. Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Paul Fodor

  3. SINTEF, University of Oslo, Forskningsveien 1, 0314, Oslo, Norway

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Smith, C., Calardo, E., Rotolo, A., Sartor, G. (2014). Legal Responsibility for the Acts of Others: A Logical Analysis. In: Bikakis, A., Fodor, P., Roman, D. (eds) Rules on the Web. From Theory to Applications. RuleML 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09870-8_24

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