Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law

The first systematic American work on how to interpret laws and constitutions. Lieber separates interpretation from construction and sets out rules for reading legal texts that judges and scholars still cite.

Francis Lieber

A legal theorist asks what general hermeneutics can learn from the way courts interpret law. Poscher responds to Gadamer and builds an analytical model that separates interpretation, construction and legal argument.

Ralf Poscher

How does language shape the meaning of a law, a contract or a court ruling? This book applies linguistics to legal interpretation, covering ambiguity, pragmatics, plain language and forensic analysis of legal texts.

Terrence R. Carney (ed.)