Authors: Andrei Marmor
ISBN-13: 9780198264873, ISBN-10: 0198264879
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: Reprint
Tel Aviv University
Interest in interpretation has emerged in recent years as one of the main intellectual paradigms of legal scholarship. This collection of new essays in law and interpretation provides the reader with an overview of this important topic, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The book begins with interpretation as a general method of legal theorizing, and thus provides critical assessment of the recent "interpretative turn" in jurisprudence. Further chapters include essays on the nature of interpretation, its objectivity, the possible determinacy of legal standards, and their nature. Concluding with a series of articles on the role of legislative intent in the interpretation of statutes, this work offers new and refreshing insights into this old controversy.
List of Contributors | ||
1 | Interpreting Interpretation | 1 |
2 | Focusing the Law: What Legal Interpretation is Not | 31 |
3 | Interpretation and Methodology in Legal Theory | 97 |
4 | Questions in Legal Interpretation | 137 |
5 | Interpretation Without Retrieval | 155 |
6 | Three Concepts of Objectivity | 177 |
7 | Determinacy, Objectivity, and Authority | 203 |
8 | Against Legal Principles | 279 |
9 | Legislators' Intentions and Unintentional Legislation | 329 |
10 | All or Nothing at All? The Intentions of Authorities and the Authority of Intentions | 357 |
11 | Interpreting Authorities | 405 |
12 | Interpreting Official Speech | 433 |
Index | 451 |