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The nature of legal interpretation : what jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy /

"Language shapes 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 interpretati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Slocum, Brian G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • Chapter 6. Originalism, Hermeneutics, and the Fixation Thesis / Lawrence B. SolumChapter 7. Getting Over the Originalist Fixation / Francis J. Mootz III; Chapter 8. Legal Speech and the Elements of Adjudication / Nicholas Allott and Benjamin Shaer; Chapter 9. Deferentialism, Living Originalism, and the Constitution / Scott Soames; Chapter 10. Deferentialism and Adjudication / Gideon Rosen; Response to Chapter Ten: Comments on Rosen / Scott Soames; Contributors; List of Cases; Index.