The nature of legal interpretation : what jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy /
"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 interpretati...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Brian G. Slocum
- The contribution of linguistics to legal interpretation / Brian G. Slocum
- Philosophy of language, linguistics, and possible lessons about originalism / Kent Greenawalt
- Linguistic knowledge and legal interpretation : what goes right, what goes wrong / Lawrence M. Solan
- The continued relevance of philosophical hermeneutics in legal thought / Frank S. Ravitch
- The strange fate of Holmes's normal speaker of English / Karen Petroski
- Originalism, hermeneutics, and the fixation thesis / Lawrence B. Solum
- Getting over the originalist fixation / Francis J. Mootz III
- Legal speech and the elements of adjudication / Nicholas Allott and Benjamin Shaer
- Deferentialism, living originalism, and the Constitution / Scott Soames
- Deferentialism and adjudication / Gideon Rosen
- Response to chapter ten : comments on Rosen / Scott Soames