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Author Barak, Aharon

Title Purposive Interpretation in Law
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (444 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: INTERPRETATION; PART TWO: PURPOSIVE INTERPRETATION; PART THREE: INTERPRETATION IN LAW; Appendices; Index
Summary This book presents a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation, by a leading judge and legal theorist. Currently, legal philosophers and jurists apply different theories of interpretation to constitutions, statutes, rules, wills, and contracts. Aharon Barak argues that an alternative approach--purposive interpretation--allows jurists and scholars to approach all legal texts in a similar manner while remaining sensitive to the important differences. Moreover, regardless of whether purposive interpretation amounts to a unifying theory, it would still be superior to other methods of interpreta
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Subject Law -- Interpretation and construction.
Law.
Law -- Philosophy.
Semantics (Law)
Law
Law -- Interpretation and construction
Law -- Philosophy
Semantics (Law)
Form Electronic book
Author Bashi, Sari
ISBN 9781400841264
1400841267
1283291002
9781283291002