Interpretivism and the Limits of Law
Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, "Interpretivism and the Limits of Law "
English | ISBN: 180220931X | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 180220931X | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What does it mean to understand the law? This challenging book discusses whether and how understanding the law is qualitatively different from understanding a different, non-legal text or linguistic utterance, and whether knowledge of a language is sufficient to understand legal content in that language.
Providing a comprehensive overview of current studies of interpretivism, both in the common and civil law systems, this book applies state of the art theories and tools of modern philosophy of language to shed new light on traditional questions in legal theory. Chapters discuss the normative importance and descriptive impact of moral inferences in legal interpretation and critically analyse the claims of legal interpretivism, uncovering the most recent versions of legal positivism. The impressive selection of leading contributors explore an array of important topics including metaethics, expressivism and legal semantics.
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