Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation

Allan C. Hutchinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-15232-8 (ISBN)

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Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation offers a viable account of law, judicial decision-making, and legal interpretation that is as fresh as it is familiar. The author expertly challenges the dominant mode of formalist theorizing and proposes an explanatory account of legal interpretation that can profitably be understood as an 'informal' intervention. Such an informal approach has no truck with either the claims of the formalists (i.e., that law is something separate from ideology) or those of the anti-formalists (i.e., that law is nothing other than ideological posturing). Hutchinson insists that, when understood properly, legal interpretation is an applied exercise in law-and-ideology; it is both constrained and unconstrained in equal measure. In developing this informalist account through a sustained application of the 'no vehicles in the park' rule, this book is wide-ranging in theoretical scope and substance, but also accessible and practical in style.

Allan C. Hutchinson is Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto.

1. An informal opening; 2. Among the formalist ghosts; 3. Walking softly: the positivist contribution; 4. Walking with purpose: a naturalist turn; 5. Back to the future: an originalist gambit; 6. A hard line: further positivist efforts; 7. Crossing over: the anti-formalist critique; 8. Moving on: an ideological inquiry; 9. Law and ideology: the informalist approach; 10. Looking for the informal judge.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	7 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-107-15232-1 / 1107152321
ISBN-13	978-1-107-15232-8 / 9781107152328
Zustand	Neuware