Legal Interpretation and Scientific Knowledge

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duarte, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Moniz Lopes, Pedro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Silva Sampaio, Jorge (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Applied linguistics.; Social sciences.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Applied Linguistics.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

This book discusses the question of whether legal interpretation is a scientific activity. The law's dependency on language, at least for the usual communication purposes, not only makes legal interpretation the main task performed by those whose work involves the law, but also an unavoidable s...

Table of Contents:

• The Limited Function of Hermeneutics in Law
• An Analytical Foundation of Rule Scepticism
• The Politics of Legal Interpretation
• Naturalizing Interpretation: A First Approach on "Hardware" and "Software" Determinants of Legal Interpretation
• An Almost Pure Theory of Legal Interpretation within Legal Science
• Constraining Adjudication: An Inquiry into the Nature of W. Baude's and S. Sachs' Law of Interpretation
• When It Is Vague What Is Vague: Identifying Vagueness
• Institutional Turn(s) in Theories of Legal Interpretation
• Legal Science: The Demarcation Problem and the Perimeter of "Good Science". .