Legal hermeneutics : history, theory, and practice

Author(s)

• Leyh, Gregory
• American Political Science Association

Bibliographic Information

Legal hermeneutics : history, theory, and practice

edited by Gregory Leyh

University of California Press, c1992

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Roundtable discussion at the 1987 American Political Science Association meeting in Chicago, Ill

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and constructive directions.

Table of Contents

Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law, Fred Dallmyr Law and Language, Gerald L. Bruns Ars Bablativa, Peter Goodrich The Americanization of Hermeneutics, James Farr Christian Praxis as Reflective Action, Jerry H. Stone Constitutional Interpretation and Conceptual Change, Terence Ball From the Lighthouse, Drucilla Cornell Intentions and the Law, David Couzens Hoy Intention, Identity, and the Constitution, Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels Legal Indeterminacy and Legitimacy, Ken Kress How Trial Judges Talk, Lief H. Carter Why Constitutional Theory Matters to Constitutional Practice (And Vice Versa), Michael J. Perry Legal Education and the Public Life, Gregory Leyh Play of Surfaces, Stanley Fish

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Details

• NCID: BA14181745
• ISBN:
  • 0520072839
  • 0520072847
• LCCN: 90019397
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 325 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : K290
  • DC20 : 340
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Law -- Interpretation and construction