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9780199756131

Legal Interpretation Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

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    9780199756131

  • ISBN10:

    0199756139

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Comparative Legal Interpretation focuses on textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. Greenawalt covers the dominant methods of legal interpretation, explaining their underlying structure and efficacy. But there are other issues involved. Which perspective should we prioritize--the writer or the reader? Should interpretation be abstract or contextual? Should it have a specific aim or a general objective? To answer these tough questions, he explores how interpretive strategies from other disciplines--the philosophy of language, literary and musical interpretation, religious interpretation, and general interpretive theory--can augment and enrich our methods of legal interpretation.

Author Biography


Kent Greenawalt is University Professor of Law at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dimensions of Inquiryp. 1
Perspectives from Other Disciplinesp. 17
Speaker Intent and Convention; Linguistic Meaning and Pragmatics; Vagueness and Indeterminacy: Three Topics in the Philosophy of Languagep. 19
Literary Interpretation, Performance Art; and Related Subjectsp. 59
Religious Interpretationp. 107
General Theories of Interpretationp. 149
Starting from the Bottom: Informal Instructionsp. 181
Interpreting Legally Authoritative Texts of Private Individualsp. 215
The Law of Agencyp. 217
Willsp. 231
Contractsp. 255
Judicial Alterations of Textual Provisions: Cy Pres and Relativesp. 301
Conclusion and a Comparisonp. 329
Indexp. 339
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