Interpretivism and the Limits of Law

Author: Tomasz Gizbert-Studnick; Francesca Poggi; Izabela Skoczeń
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781802209310
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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What does it mean to understand the law? This challenging book discusses whether and how understanding the law is qualitatively different from understanding a different, non-legal text or linguistic utterance, and whether knowledge of a language is sufficient to understand legal content in that language.

Providing a comprehensive overview of current studies of interpretivism, both in the common and civil law systems, this book applies state of the art theories and tools of modern philosophy of language to shed new light on traditional questions in legal theory. Chapters discuss the normative importance and descriptive impact of moral inferences in legal interpretation and critically analyse the claims of legal interpretivism, uncovering the most recent versions of legal positivism. The impressive selection of leading contributors explore an array of important topics including metaethics, expressivism and legal semantics.

Outlining a new direction of study and delineating the path for future research on moral inferences in legal interpretation, this timely book will be a thought-provoking read for legal scholars and students interested in legal theory, philosophy and interpretation.

1. Introduction to Interpretivism and the Limits of Law 1

Izabela Skoczeń

PART I: LEGAL REASONING THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERPRETIVISM

2. Practical reasoning and the communicative model of law 12

Brian H Bix

3. Legal antipositivism and the reliability challenge in metaethics 23

David Plunkett

4. The meaning and interpretation of statutes in

Anglo-American legal systems 43

Jeffrey Goldsworthy

5. The communication theory as a phantom 60

Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki and Francesca Poggi

PART II: INTERPRETIVISM VERSUS THE COMMUNICATIVE MODEL OF LEGAL REASONING

6. Why the anti-positivists’ concept of practice is too thin 77

Marcin Matczak

7. Legal interpretivism: all or some? 96

Adam Dyrda

8. Interpretation and the bounds of reason 113

Giovanni Tuzet

PART III: LEGAL INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL MEANING

9. The authoritative intention thesis 130

Torben Spaak

10. Distinguishing the distinguishable: interpretative norms and interpretative criteria in adjudication of meaning 146

David Duarte and Pedro Moniz Lopes

11. From rule-scepticism to the interpretive orthodoxy? On Wittgenstein, legal theory, and the difference between understanding and interpreting a rule 159

Paolo Sandro

PART IV: THE SEMANTICS AND META-SEMANTICS OF LEGAL CONTENT

12. Semantic theories and interpretation: a critique of Michael S. Green’s ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy’ 176

Thomas Bustamante and Thiago Lopes Decat

13. When expressiveness flows back: the symbolic functions of legislation and their legal significance 194

Francesco Ferraro

14. Expressivism and the ex aequo et bono adjudication method 212

Izabela Skoczeń and Krzysztof Posłajko

15. Semantics of institutional names 229

Paweł Banaś

Index