Law and Legal Interpretation

Law and Legal Interpretation
ISBN-10
1351770101
ISBN-13
9781351770101
Category
Social Science
Pages
837
Language
English
Published
2017-11-01
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Neil MacCormick, Fernando Atria Lemaitre

Description

This title was first published in 2003. Leading contemporary essays on interpretation are assembled in this volume, which offsets them against a small number of "classical" works from earlier periods. It has long been recognized that textual sources (constitutions, statutes, precedents, commentaries) are central to developed systems of law and that interpretation of such texts is one highly important element in adjudication, legal practice and legal scholarship. Scholars have also contended that the totality of legal activity is "interpretive" in a wider sense and debates about objectivity have raged. The reasons for this development are here critically scrutinized.

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