Jan Wolenski (Universidad Jaguelónica en Cracovia) has posted How Deontic Logic Contributes to the Analysis of Legal Systems: Review of Navarro & Rodríguez, Deontic Logic and Legal Systems (CUP 2014) (Revus – Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2016) 29: 119-122) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The book under review consists of two parts closely related to its title: I Introduction to Deontic Logic, II Logic and Legal Systems. Each part is divided into chapters. Part I brings the following units: 1. The Language of Logic and the Possibility of Deontic Logic; 2. Paradoxes and Shortcomings of Logic; 3. Norm-propositions, Conditional Norms, and Defeasibility, and Part II the following: 4. Legal Systems and Legal Validity; 5. Legal Indeterminacy: Normative Gaps and Conflicts of Norms; 6. Legal Dynamics. Generally speaking, the reader might expect that the chapters of Part II use (or apply) the formal tools of deontic logic to analyse selected topics concerning legal systems.