Law and legal interpretation
By: edited by Fernando Atria and D. Neil MacCormick.
Contributors: Atria Lemaître, Fernando.; MacCormick, Neil.
Series: The international library of essays in law and legal theory; The international library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series; International library of essays in law and legal theory
Publisher: Ashgate/Dartmouth
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Law -- Interpretation and construction.; Law -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Pt. I. Interpretation and law: why is interpretation important for law? Law, philosophy and interpretation (1994) / Ronald Dworkin ; Why interpret? (1996) / Joseph Raz; value: Pt. II. Interpretation and legal reasoning: law and morality. Law as practical reason (1989) / M.J. Detmold ; Legal reasoning and legal theory revisited (1999) / Fernando Atria ; A natural law theory of interpretation (1985) / Michael S. Moore; value: Pt. III. Interpretation and application of legal rules, vagueness and defeasibility. Justification and application of norms (1993) / Robert Alexy ; Critical remarks on Robert Alexy's "special-case thesis" (1993) / Klaus Günther ; Law, love and computers (1996) / Zenon Bankowski ; On law and logic / Carlos E. Alchourrón; value: Pt. IV. Legal interpretation and politics. Legal analysis as institutional imagination (1996) / Roberto Mangabeira Unger ; The inertia of institutional imagination: a reply to Roberto Unger (1996) / Emilios A. Christodoulidis; value: Pt. V. Interpretation and objectivity. Law and metaphysics (1987) / Charles M. Yablon ; Kripke's case: some remarks on rules, their interpretation and application (1988) / Jes Bjarup ; Working on the chain gang: interpretation in law and literature (1989) / Stanley Fish; value: Pt. VI. Interpreting the law. Normative and narrative coherence in legal decision making (1998) / Jan M. van Dunné ; On justification and interpretation (1994) / Jerzy Wróblewski and Neil MacCormick ; Authority reasons in legal interpretation and moral reasoning (1988) / Aleksander Peczenik ; Two types of substantive reasons: the core of a theory of common-law justification (1978) / Robert S. Summers ; Reasonableness and objectivity (1999) / Neil MacCormick.