The Nature of Legal Interpretation
Subtitle: What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 17, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226445021
Description: "Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless--we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal texts. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? ...[Contributors] argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly, ...analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts."--
Notes: Source title: The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy