Law and Interpretation Essays in Legal Philosophy

by Marmor, Andrei

• ISBN13: 9780198264873
• ISBN10: 0198264879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-05
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
List of Contributors	p. x
Interpreting Interpretation	p. 1
Focusing the Law What Legal Interpretation is Not	p. 31
Interpretation and Methodology in Legal Theory	p. 97
Questions in Legal Interpretation	p. 137
Interpretation Without Retrieval	p. 155
Three Concepts of Objectivity	p. 177
Determinacy Objectivity, and Authority	p. 203
Against Legal Principles	p. 279
Legislators' Intentions and Unintentional Legislation	p. 329
All or Nothing at All?The Intentions of Authoritiesand the Authority of Intentions	p. 357
Interpreting Authorities	p. 405
Interpreting Official Speech	p. 433
Index	p. 451
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