The nature of legal interpretation what jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy - Slocum, Brian G. (Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 2017)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Law -- Language; Law -- Interpretation and construction; Law -- Language -- Philosophy