Layman E. Allen

Professor Emeritus of Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1966-

Forthcoming

• Co-author. "The Legal Argument Game of Legal Relations." C. S. Saxon, co-author. J. L. & Info. Sci. Forthcoming. (Originally published under the same title in E-Law - Murdoch U. Electronic J.L. 5, no. 3 (1998).)

Books

• Equations: The Game of Creative Mathematics. Rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Autotelic Instructional Materials Pub., 1969.
• The Real Numbers Game. New Haven, Conn.: Autotelic Instructional Materials Pub., 1966.
• Equations: The Game of Creative Mathematics. 1966 ed. New Haven, Conn.: Autotelic Instructional Materials Pub., 1966.

Book Chapters

• "Un dialogue transatlantique." In Savoir innover en droit; concepts, outils, systèmes: Hommage à Lucien Mehl, 303. Paris: La Documentation française, 1999.
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• Co-author. "Application of Enriched Deontic Legal Relations: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 7(a), Pleadings." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, by International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law; 80-9. New York: ACM Press, 1999.
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• Co-author. "Achieving Fluency in Modernized and Formalized Hohfeld: Puzzles and Games for the Legal Relations Language." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 19-28. New York: ACM Press, 1997.
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• "From the Fundamental Legal Conceptions of Hohfeld to Legal Relations: Refining the Enrichment of Solely Deontic Legal Relations." In Deontic Logic, Agency, and Normative Systems: Ä EON '96, edited by M. A. Brown and J. Carmo, 1-26. Third International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science. London: Springer, 1996.
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• Co-author. "Better Language, Better Thought, Better Communication: The A-Hohfeld Language for Legal Analysis." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, by International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law; 53-61. New York: ACM Press, 1995.
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• Co-author. "A-Hohfeld: A Language for Robust Structural Representation of Knowledge in the Legal Domain to Build Interpretation-Assistance Expert Systems." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Deontic Logic in Computer Science: Normative System Specification, edited by J. Meyer and R. J. Wieringa. Chichester, N.Y.: J. Wiley, 1993.
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• Co-author. "Relationship of Expert Systems to the Operation of a Legal System." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Expert Systems in Law, edited by A. A. Martino, 53-65. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Logic, Informatics, Law: Legal Expert Systems, held Nov. 2-5 in Florence, Italy. Amsterdam; New York: North-Holland, 1992.
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• Co-author. "More IA Needed in AI: Interpretation Assistance for Coping with the Problem of Multiple Structural Interpretations." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: Proceedings of the Conference, June 25-28, 1991. New York: ACM Press, 1991.
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• Co-author. "Automatic Generation of a Legal Expert System." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Law, Decision-Making, and Microcomputers: Cross-National Perspectives, edited by S. S. Nagel, 243-69. Chicago: Greenwood, 1991.
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• Co-author. "Exploring Computer Aided Generation of Questions for Normalizing Legal Rules." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Computer Power and Legal Language, edited by C. Walter, 243-316. New York: Quorum Books, 1988.
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• "Analysis of the Logical Structure of Legal Rules by a Modernized and Formalized Version of Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Conceptions." In Automated Analysis of Legal Texts: Logic, Informatics, Law, edited by A. A. Martino and F. S. Natali, 385-450. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986.
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• Co-author. "Computer-Aided Normalizing and Unpacking: Some Interesting Machine-Processable Transformations of Legal Rules." C. S. Saxon, co-author. In Computing Power and Legal Reasoning, edited by C. Walter, 495-572. New York: Quorum Books, 1985.
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• "Towards a Normalized Language to Clarify the Structure of Legal Discourse." In Deontic Logic, Computational Linguistics and Legal Information Systems, edited by A. A. Martino, 349-407. Vol. 2, Edited Versions of Selected Papers from the International Conference on "Logic, Informatics, Law," Florence, Italy, April 1981. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982.
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• "Clarifying Legal Drafting by Well-Structuring It: An Improved Version of the PLAIN LANGUAGE Game." In Electronic Law '82. Milton, Oxfordshire: Society for Compliance & Law, 1982.
• "Language, Law, and Logic: Plain Legal Drafting for the Electronic Age." In Computer Science and Law, edited by B. Niblett. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980.
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• Co-author. "The Simulation of a Computer-Assisted Instruction Program for Teaching a Non-Simulation Game: MEEMI-EQUATIONS Auto-Mate IMP Kit No. 1." J. Ross, co-author. In Games in Education and Development, edited by L. Shears and E. Bowers, 217-66. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1974.
• "Rules and Freedom: Games as a Mechanism for Ego Development in Children and Adolescents." In Games in Education and Development, edited by L. Shears and E. Bower, 59-74. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1974.
• Co-author. "Improving Skill in Applying Mathematical Ideas: A Preliminary Report on the Instructional Gaming Program at Pelham Middle School in Detroit." J. Ross, co-author. In Proceedings of the National Gaming Council 13th Annual Symposium, 127-36. 1974.
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• Co-author. "The Effect of Instructional Gaming Upon Absenteeism: The First Step." D. B. Main, co-author. In Simulation and Gaming; Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium, National Gaming Council, edited by J. E. Moriarty, 135-58. Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, 1974.
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• "Some Examples of Programmed Non-Simulation Games: WFF 'N PROOF, ON-SETS, and EQUATIONS." In Educational Aspects of Simulations, edited by P. Tansey. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
• "Right1, Right2, Right3, Right4 and How about RighT?" In Human Rights: AMINTAPHIL I, edited by E. H. Pollack. Lakewood, Calif.: Jay Pubs., 1971.
• "Computer Systems for Research." In The Law of Computers, edited by G. Holmes and C. Norville. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1971.
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• "The Problem of Communications in Meeting the Information Requirements of the Courts." In National Symposium on Science and Criminal Justice, 109-12. Washington, D.C.: President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, President's Office of Science and Technology and the Department of Justice, 1966.
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• "Logic-Language-Law." In Computers and the Law: An Introductory Handbook, edited by R. P. Bigelow. New York: Commerce Clearing House, 1966.
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Journal Articles

• "Festschrift: Lee Loevinger." Jurimetrics 40, no. 4 (2000): 394.
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• "Some Examples of Using Legal Relations Language in the Legal Domain: Applied Deontic Logic." Notre Dame L. Rev. 73, no. 3 (1998): 535-74.
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• Co-author. "The Legal Argument Games of Legal Relations." C. S. Saxon, co-author. E-Law - Murdoch U. Electronic J. L. 5, no. 3 (1998).
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• Co-author. "Controlling Inadvertent Ambiguity in the Logical Structure of Legal Drafting by means of the Prescribed Definitions of the A-Hohfeld Structural Language." C. S. Saxon, co-author. Theoria 9, no. 21 (1994): 135-72.
• Co-author. "Synthesizing Related Rules from Statutes and Cases for Legal Expert Systems." S. Payton and C. S. Saxon, co-authors. Ratio Juris 3 (1990): 272-318.
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• Co-author. "Automatic Generation of a Legal Expert System from a Normalized Interpretation of Legal Rules." R. Stipanovic, co-author. Zbornik Pravnog Fakulteta u Zagrebu 38 (1988): 807-42.
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• Co-author. "One Use of Computerized Instructional Gaming in Legal Education: To Better Understand the Rich Logical Structure of Legal Rules and Improve Legal Writing." C. S. Saxon, co-author. U. Mich. J. L. Reform 18 (1985): 383-471.
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• Co-author. "The Need for Clear Structure in 'Plain Language' Legal Drafting." C. R. Engholm, co-author. U. Mich. J. L. Reform 13 (1980): 455-513.
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• Co-author. "What Counts Is How the Game Is Scored: One Way to Increase Achievement in Learning Mathematics." G. Jackson et al., co-authors. Simulation & Games 9, no. 4 (1978): 371-92.
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• Co-author. "Normalized Legal Drafting and the Query Method." C. R. Engholm, co-author. J. Legal Educ. 29 (1978): 380-412.
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• Co-author. "Instructional Gaming as a Means to Achieve Skill in Selecting Ideas Relevant for Solving a Problem." J. Ross, co-author. Int'l J. Mathematical Educ. Sci. & Tech. 6 (1975): 475-88.
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• "QUERIES 'N THEORIES: An Instructional Game on the DOT, DOT, DOT... Approach to Scientific Method." Instructional Sci. 3 (1974): 205-29.
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• "Formalizing Hohfeldian Analysis to Clarify the Multiple Senses of 'Legal Right': A Powerful Lens for the Electronic Age." S. Cal. L. Rev. 48 (1974): 428-87.
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• Co-author. "EQUATIONS Presented as an Example of a Nonsimulation Game." J. Ross, co-author. Simulation/Gaming/News 1 (1972): 12-3.
• Co-author. "The Virtues of Non-Simulation Games." R. Allen and J. Ross, co-authors. Simulation & Games 1 (1970): 319-26.
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• Co-author. "Better Organization of Legal Knowledge." T. Ohta, co-author. U. Tol. L. Rev. 1969, no. 3 (1969): 491-537.
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• "A Language-Normalization Approach to Information Retrieval in Law." Jurimetrics 9 (1968): 41-56.
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Reviews

• Review of Computer-Assisted Instruction: Stanford's 1965-66 Arithmetic Program, by P. Suppes et al. J. Symbolic Logic 36 (1971): 326-7.
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• Review of Obligation and Modal Logic, by H. Castaneda. J. Symbolic Logic 33 (1968): 612.
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• Review of "Escapism: The Logical Basis of Ethics." by A. N. Prior, in Essays in Moral Philosophy, edited by A. I. Melden. J. Symbolic Logic 33 (1968): 610-1.
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• Review of "Escapism: The Logical Basis of Ethics." P. Nowell-Smith and E. Lemmon, co-authors. Mind n.s. 69 (1960). J. Symbolic Logic 33 (1968): 611-2.
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Reprints (Articles and other publications reprinted in full and Law Quadrangle)

• "Symbolic Logic: A Razor-Edged Tool for Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents." In Logic, Probability, and Presumptions in Legal Reasoning, edited by S. Brewer. New York: Garland Publishers, 1998. (Originally published under the same title in Yale L.J. 66, no. 6 (1957): 833-79.)
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