Kent Greenawalt

Realms of Legal Interpretation

Core Elements and Critical Variations

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Produktbeschreibung

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 exist 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780190882860
• ISBN-10: 0190882867
• Artikelnr.: 52527769

Autorenporträt

Kent Greenawalt is a University Professor at Columbia Law School. His interests include constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, legal interpretation, and criminal responsibility. He is the author of many books, including Interpreting the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Text or Intent, or Both
Chapter 2: Changing Conditions and Conflicts with Values
Chapter 3: Conceptualization as it Relates to Actual and Recommended Practices
Chapter 4: Differences in Legal Systems
Chapter 5: Other Disciplines: Insights and Limits
Chapter 6: Conclusion