Overview
- Challenges traditional approaches to legal interpretation
- Combines insights from analytical legal theory with legal semiotics
- Focuses on the application of law in a wide variety of contexts, including international politics and diplomatic practice
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Application of Law in Political Practice
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces of injustice established doctrines are reconsidered, reformulated and partly replaced by competing doctrines and hypotheses. Given the relative indeterminacy of law, it is no surprise that the problem of interpretation has always been one of the focal points of attention for legal semiotics. Who has the power to define words and concepts? Who can successfully assume the power to speak on behalf of the legal community? Which methods are used to justify the power to define?
This book discusses the questions mentioned above from three, related perspectives:
-Legal theory (Part I).
-Judicial reasoning (Part II).
-Application of law in politics and diplomatic practice (Part III).
Reviews
"Combining theoretical inspiration with a keen interest in case law, this volume will appeal to scholars and students of legal theory, jurisprudence, legal anthropology, postcolonial studies, indeed to anyone who’s interested in problems of interpretation in legal and political theory and practice. It should also come in very handy in the classroom." Ronnie Lippens, Professor of Criminology, Keele University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning
Book Subtitle: Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice
Authors: Anne Wagner, Wouter Werner, Deborah Cao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5320-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5319-1Published: 23 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7338-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5320-7Published: 16 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 219
Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Language