La and Interpretation Essays in Legal Philosophy [Paperback]

Interest in interpretation has emerged in recent years as one of the main intellectual paradigms of legal scholarship. This collection of new essays in law and interpretation provides the reader with an overview of this important topic, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The book begins with interpretation as a general method of legal theorizing, and thus provides critical assessment of the recent interpretative turn in jurisprudence. Further chapters include essays on the nature of interpretation, its objectivity, the possible determinacy of legal standards, and their nature. Concluding with a series of articles on the role of legislative intent in the interpretation of statutes, this work offers new and refreshing insights into this old controversy.

Foreword
I. Interpretation and Method in Legal Theory
1. Interpreting Interpretation,M.S. Moore
2. Focusing the Law: What Legal Interpretation is Not,M. Stone
3. Interpretation and Methodology in Legal Theory,S.R. Perry
4. Questions in Legal Interpretation,B. Bix
II. Interpretation, Objectivity, and Determinacy
5. Interpretation without Retrieval,J. Raz
6. Three Concepts of Objectivity,A. Marmor
7. Determinacy, Objectivity, and Authority,J. Coleman and B. Leiter
8. Against Legal Principles,L. Alexander and K. Kress
III. Interpretation and Legislative Intent
9. Legislators' Intentions and Unintentional Legislation,J. Waldron
10. All or Nothing At All? The Intentions of Authorities and the Authority of Intentions,L. Alexander
11. Interpreting Authorities,H.M. Hurd
12. Interpreting Official Speech,M. Dan-Cohen

Anyone with an interest in recent legal theory would find much of interest in it. Ethics