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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136595003321

Autore

Hutchinson Allan C. <1951->

Titolo

Toward an informal account of legal interpretation / / Allan C. Hutchinson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-71918-9

1-316-72278-3

1-316-72338-0

1-316-60645-7

1-316-58548-4

1-316-72398-4

1-316-72638-X

1-316-72458-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Interpretation and construction

Law - Methodology

Law - Philosophy

Comparative law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2016).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title                 ; Title page                 ; Copyright information                            ; Dedication                 ; Table of contents                        ; Preface              ; 1 An Informal Opening                            ; Looking for a Park                         ; Finding Vehicles                       ; Of Judges and Jurists                            ; Conclusion                 ; 2 Among the Formalist Ghosts                                   ; A Ghostly Presence                         ; A Dubious Pedigree

A Ghost of Many Different Kinds                                      An Informalist Opening                             ; Conclusion                 ; 3 Walking Softly: The Positivist Contribution                                                    ; In the Middle of the Road                                ; Taking a Ride                    ; A Good Night's Sleep                           ; Conclusion                 ; 4 Walking



with Purpose: A Naturalist Turn                                                ; A Fuller Account                       ; A Sense of Purpose

Looking for Integrity                            Lost in the Park                       ; Conclusion                 ; 5 Back to the Future: An Originalist Gambit                                                  ; Let's Get Originalist                            ; Shoveling Smoke                      ; Falling Short                    ; Going Public                   ; Conclusion                 ; 6 In a Common Cause: An Incremental Approach                                                   ; A Traditional Approach

Of Statutes and Constitutions                                    A Great Tradition                        ; The Obergefell Outing                            ; Conclusion                 ; 7 A Hard Line: Further Positivist Efforts                                                ; No Ordinary Joe                      ; Of Objects and Objections                                ; Through the Park Darkly                              ; Conclusion                 ; 8 Crossing Over: The Anti-Formalist Critique                                                   ; The Charted World

Shift Happens                    Crossing the Lines                         ; Conclusion                 ; 9 Moving On: An Ideological Inquiry                                          ; On the Bias                  ; Flipping Coins                     ; Into the Ideology                        ; Institutional Concerns                             ; Conclusion                 ; 10 Law and Ideology: The Informalist Approach                                                    ; After 'Theory'                     ; A Good Night's Sleep

In a State of Constant Flux

Sommario/riassunto

Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation offers a viable account of law, judicial decision-making, and legal interpretation that is as fresh as it is familiar. The author expertly challenges the dominant mode of formalist theorizing and proposes an explanatory account of legal interpretation that can profitably be understood as an 'informal' intervention. Such an informal approach has no truck with either the claims of the formalists (i.e., that law is something separate from ideology) or those of the anti-formalists (i.e., that law is nothing other than ideological posturing). Hutchinson insists that, when understood properly, legal interpretation is an applied exercise in law-and-ideology; it is both constrained and unconstrained in equal measure. In developing this informalist account through a sustained application of the 'no vehicles in the park' rule, this book is wide-ranging in theoretical scope and substance, but also accessible and practical in style.