Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation

The book challenges all formalist accounts of legal interpretation and offers an 'informal' alternative.

List of contents

1. An informal opening; 2. Among the formalist ghosts; 3. Walking softly: the positivist contribution; 4. Walking with purpose: a naturalist turn; 5. Back to the future: an originalist gambit; 6. A hard line: further positivist efforts; 7. Crossing over: the anti-formalist critique; 8. Moving on: an ideological inquiry; 9. Law and ideology: the informalist approach; 10. Looking for the informal judge.

About the author

Allan C. Hutchinson is Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Allan C Hutchinson, Allan C. Hutchinson, Allan C. (York University Hutchinson, Hutchinson Allan C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781316606452
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60645-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law