Legal hermeneutics : history, theory, and practice
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Legal hermeneutics : history, theory, and practice
University of California Press, c1992
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 25 libraries
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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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