Law’s Language

Meaning and Normativity

Daniel Wodak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

75 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-71136-4 (ISBN)

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The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. This Element outlines what we should want from a semantics of prescriptive legal language, critically evaluates four leading semantic accounts, and argues that legal prescriptivity is not a problem for positivists.

The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. How do we explain the meaning of prescriptive legal language? This has long been regarded as a problem for positivists, since at first glance their view suggests we can derive an ought – a legal obligation or right or permission – from descriptive social facts alone. This Element outlines what we should want from a semantics of prescriptive legal language, critically evaluates four leading semantic accounts, and argues that legal prescriptivity is not, in the end, a problem for positivists.

Introduction; 1. That's just semantics; 2. From 'must' to 'obligated'; 3. Is 'legal' like 'Kantian'?; 4. Hooray for law; 5. Are legal duties made up?; 6. Hume's law and the law; Conclusion; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Philosophy of Law
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	275 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-009-71136-9 / 1009711369
ISBN-13	978-1-009-71136-4 / 9781009711364
Zustand	Neuware