Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning Collected Papers
Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces o
- PDF / 2,898,245 Bytes
- 225 Pages / 452.91 x 683.15 pts Page_size
- 7 Downloads / 197 Views
Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice
INTERPRETATION, LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING
INTERPRETATION, LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice
by
ANNE WAGNER Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
WOUTER WERNER Institute of Public International Law, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
and
DEBORAH CAO Griffith University, Australia
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-5319-3 (HB) 978-1-4020-5319-1 (HB) 1-4020-5320-7 (e-book) 978-1-4020-5320-7 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
Printed on acid-free paper
All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES....................................................................vii INTRODUCTION...................................................................................xi PART I: LEGAL THEORY CHAPTER 1 LAW AS FACT, LAW AS FICTION: A TRIPARTITE MODEL OF LEGAL COMMUNICATION ...............................3 CHAPTER 2 LEXICAL I NDETERMINACY: CONTEXTUALISM AND RULE-FOLLOWING IN COMMON LAW ADJUDICATION ......................................................................................21 CHAPTER 3 TOPICAL JURISPRUDENCE: RECONCILIATION OF LAW AND RHETORIC ............................................49 CHAPTER 4 LEGAL SPEECH ACTS AS INTERSUBJECTIVE COMMUNICATIVE ACTION .................................................................................................65 PART II: JUDICIAL REASONING CHAPTER 5 WHO NEEDS FACT WHEN YOU’VE GOT NARRATIVE? THE CASE OF P,C&S VS UNITED KINGDOM ...........................................................85 CHAPTER 6 TAKING FACTS SERIOUSLY .................................................................109 CHAPTER 7 TRANSFORMING AMBIGUITY INTO VAGUENESS IN LEGAL INTERPRETATION .................................................................................121 PART III: APPLICATION OF LAW IN POLITICAL PRACTICE CHAPTER 8 THE INCLUSIVE/EXCLUSIVE NATION: BLACKS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATION IN COLOMBIA .........141
v
vi
Contents CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL VALUES AND FLOATING BORDERS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON .............................................................................................169 CHAPTER 10 LANDMARKS FOR ABORIGINAL LAW IN AUSTRALIA ...........................195 REFERENCES.............................
Data Loading...
