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: Legal Theory BlogMootz on Interpretation
By Lawrence Solum
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Francis Joseph Mootz III (William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV) has posted Interpretation (THE COMPANION TO LAW AND THE HUMANITIES, Sarat, Anderson, Franke, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:- This essay is Chapter 13 in "The Companion to Law and the Humanities," published by Cambridge University Press. I first survey various theoretical approaches to interpretation, including natural law, analytical legal positivism, law as communication (originalism, intentionalism, and new textualism), and the hermeneutical turn. I then discuss the role of interpretation in contract law, statutory law and constitutional law, to situate the theories in practice.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).
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