Realms of legal interpretation : core elements and critical variations / Kent Greenawalt.
2018
K235 .G735 2018 (Map It)
Available at Cellar
Items
Details
Title
Realms of legal interpretation : core elements and critical variations / Kent Greenawalt.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Call Number
K235 .G735 2018
ISBN
9780190882860 (hardback)
0190882867 (hardback)
0190882867 (hardback)
Description
168 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1032670206
Summary
"In Realms of Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on how courts decide what is legally forbidden or authorized, and how context shapes their decisions. The problem, he argues, is that we do not, and never have, agreed on all the details of the standards United States judges should employ - like everyone else, judges have different ideas of what constitutes good common sense. Moreover, circumstance regularly throws up hurdles... Different judges react in different ways. Acknowledging that courts will never agree upon a uniform approach to applying norms and interpreting the law, Greenawalt's aim is to provide a capacious, user-friendly model for approaching hard cases sensibly in both public and private law. Just as importantly, the book serves as a pithy guide to the major forms of legal interpretation for nonlawyers" -- Dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
Record Appears in
Onsite Print Resources
Shared Records
All Resources
Shared Records
All Resources
Table of Contents
Text or intent, or both
Changing conditions and conflicts with values
Conceptualization as it relates to actual and recommended practices
Differences in legal systems
Other disciplines : insights and limits.
Changing conditions and conflicts with values
Conceptualization as it relates to actual and recommended practices
Differences in legal systems
Other disciplines : insights and limits.