Realms of legal interpretation : core elements and critical variations /

Realms of legal interpretation : core elements and critical variations /

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Author / Creator:	Greenawalt, Kent, 1936- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2018.
Description:	168 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Law -- Philosophy. Comparative law. Law -- Interpretation and construction. Comparative law. Law -- Interpretation and construction. Law (Philosophical concept)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11784659

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ISBN:	9780190882860 0190882867
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-157) and index.
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" --

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Text or Intent, or Both
2. Changing Conditions and Conflicts with Values
3. Conceptualization as It Relates to Actual and Recommended Practices
4. Differences in Legal Systems
5. Other Disciplines: Insights and Limits
Conclusion
Notes
Index