In this chapter from Law and the Humanities: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press, I first survey various theoretical approaches to interpretation, including natural law, analytical legal positivism, law as communication (originalism, intentionalism, and new textualism), and the hermeneutical turn. I then discuss the role of interpretation in contract law, statutory law and constitutional law, to situate the theories in practice
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The thesis critically examines the judicial interpretation of statutory rules, now the source of mos...
Book review of Interpretation and Legal Theory by Andrei Marmor and published by Clarendon Press (Ox...
In this chapter from Law and the Humanities: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Pr...
Chapter 12: Interpretation, in Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (Austin Sarat, Matthew Anders...
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Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence...
International audiencecan be considered an “essentially contested concept”. It is reasonable to iden...
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday...
Interpretation is fashionable, and not just in jurisprudence. Yet for all the attention interpretati...
The article embraces two strictly interconnected problems: the problem of interpretative openness a...
Interpretation is a fundamental feature of legal practice. Yet, we have no complete account of inter...
The thesis critically examines the judicial interpretation of statutory rules, now the source of mos...
Book review of Interpretation and Legal Theory by Andrei Marmor and published by Clarendon Press (Ox...
In this chapter from Law and the Humanities: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Pr...
Chapter 12: Interpretation, in Law and the Humanities: An Introduction (Austin Sarat, Matthew Anders...
How should we interpret legal instruments? How do we identify the law they create? Current approache...
In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual i...
Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act o...
Is interpreting a legal text something different form understanding it? If this is the case, what do...
This Article situates the field of law within the interpretive disciplines and analyzes a number of ...
Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence...
International audiencecan be considered an “essentially contested concept”. It is reasonable to iden...
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday...
Interpretation is fashionable, and not just in jurisprudence. Yet for all the attention interpretati...
The article embraces two strictly interconnected problems: the problem of interpretative openness a...
Interpretation is a fundamental feature of legal practice. Yet, we have no complete account of inter...
The thesis critically examines the judicial interpretation of statutory rules, now the source of mos...
Book review of Interpretation and Legal Theory by Andrei Marmor and published by Clarendon Press (Ox...