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The nature of legal interpretation : what jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy / edited by Brian G. Slocum.
LIBRA K487.L36 N38 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Language.
- Law.
- Law--Interpretation and construction.
- Law--Language--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780226445021
- 022644502X
- OCLC:
- 958798818
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