Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice /

• Main Authors: Wagner, Anne (Author), Werner, Wouter (Author), Cao, Deborah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Law.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Fundamentals of Law.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of Language.

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 reconsi...

Table of Contents:

• Legal Theory
• Law as Fact, Law as Fiction
• Lexical Indeterminacy
• Topical Jurisprudence
• Legal Speech Acts as Intersubjective Communicative Action
• Judicial Reasoning
• Who needs Fact when you’ve got Narrative? The Case of P,C&S vs. United Kingdom
• Taking Facts Seriously
• Transforming Ambiguity into Vagueness in Legal Interpretation
• Application of Law in Political Practice
• The Inclusive/Exclusive Nation
• Global Values and Floating Borders in the Brazilian Amazon
• Landmarks for Aboriginal Law in Australia.