Modern Legal Interpretation: Legalism or Beyond

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Legalism or legal formalism usually depicts judges as resolving cases by allegedly merely applying pre-existing legal rules. They do not seem to legislate, exercise discretion, balance or pursue policies, and they definitely do not look outside of conventional legal texts for guidance in deciding new cases. For them, the law is an autonomous domain of knowledge and technique. What they follow are the maxims of clarity, determinacy, and coherence of law. This perception of law and adjudication is sometimes designated as "an orthodox lawyering". However, at least in certain cases, it is very difficult to say that legalism is not an inappropriate theory or a method of legal interpretation. Different theories have attested that legal interpretation is much more than just legalism, which appears to be far too naïve. In the framework of modern legal interpretation, the following questions can be raised. Is it possible to integrate legalism in a coherent theory of legal interpretation? Is legalism as a distinctive theory of legal interpretation still a feasible theory of interpretation? How can such a formalist approach withstand a critique from Dworkinian moral interpretivism or accusations of being a myth, masking political preferences from legal realists? These and many other issues about legal interpretation are discussed in this book by prominent legal philosophers and legal theorists.

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Modern legal interpretation: legalism or beyond

Novak, Marko; Strahovnik, Vojko

Novak, Marko; Strahovnik, Vojko

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Identifying "purely" interpretative issues and activities /Bruce Anderson,Michael Shute --Beyond the four corners : the fate of formalism in contract interpretation /Seppo Sajama --The role of theory in legal theory : Weinrib's formalism and Wittgenstein /Maija Aalto-Heinilä --Interpreting defeasible principles and rules /Vojko Strahovnik --Rhetorical legal argumentation through a multimodal dimension /Marko Novak --Reinventing systematic interpretation : criteria and uses of the tripartition into public, private and social law /Ivan Padjen --Realism, truth and Meinongianism : a metaphysical conception of law and legal discourses /Federico Puppo --Are there 'non-Euclidean geometries' for judicial reasoning? : epistemological pluralism facing the crisis of legal formalism /Maurizio Manzin --Hohfeld's analytical scheme and constitutional economic and social rights /Ivana Tucak.

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