Informatyka prawnicza a argumentacja prawnicza

Although legal informatics and legal argumentation do not belong to the latest topics in the Polish literature, they are rarely discussed together. Prima facie, it may seem that these fields are considerably different from each other, have little in common and even to some degree are competitive against each other. Argumentation is associated with justification, giving the answer to the question “why?”, whereas informatics is perceived as the expression of strict and condensed knowledge. A computer solution resembles a mathematical result obtained after entering the data while the world of law is not a mathematical model. A slightly deeper analysis of the subjects of research, goals and tasks which legal informatics and legal argumentation have to face shows that these disciplines, when skillfully used, may give each other wide support. Legal informatics may provide and frequently does provide far-reaching assistance in finding and gathering arguments. On the other hand, argumentation protects against mechanical and uncritical use of the achievements of legal informatics.