The Nature of legal Interpretation What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy
Languageshapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of ou...
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Chicago ; London
University of Chicago Press
2017, ©2017
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| Collection: | Making of Modern Law / Legal Treatises - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Brian G. Slocum
- The contribution of linguistics to legal interpretation / Brian G. Slocum
- Philosophy of language, linguistics, and possible lessons about originalism / Kent Greenawalt
- Linguistic knowledge and legal interpretation: what goes right, what goes wrong / Lawrence M. Solan
- The continued relevance of philosophical hermeneutics in legal thought / Frank S. Ravitch
- The strange fate of Holmes's normal speaker of English / Karen Petroski
- Originalism, hermeneutics, and the fixation thesis / Lawrence B. Solum
- Getting over the originalist fixation / Francis J. Mootz III
- Legal speech and the elements of adjudication / Nicholas Allott and Benjamin Shaer
- Deferentialism, living originalism, and the constitution / Scott Soames
- Deferentialism and adjudication / Gideon Rosen
- Response to chapter ten : comments on Rosen / Scott Soames