Legal Interpretation

Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

Kent Greenawalt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-975613-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Kent Greenawalt is University Professor of Law at Columbia University.

1. Introduction: Dimensions of Inquiry
Part One: Insights from Other Disciplines
2. Speaker Intent and Convention; Linguistic Meaning and Pragmatics; Vagueness and Indeterminacy: Three Topics in the Philosophy of Language
3. Literary Interpretation, Performance Art, and Related Subjects
4. Religious Interpretation
5. General Theories of Interpretation
6. Starting from the Bottom: Informal Instructions
Part Two: Interpreting Legally Authoritative Texts of Private Individuals
7. The Law of Agency
8. Wills
9. Contracts
10. Judicial Alterations of Textual Provisions: Cy Pres and Relatives
11. Conclusion and a Comparison

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 157 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-19-975613-9 / 0199756139
ISBN-13	978-0-19-975613-1 / 9780199756131
Zustand	Neuware