Legal and Political Hermeneutics

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.)

A study of how national judges interpret international law, based on the case law of Swiss courts. Ammann compares their methods with the rules of the Vienna Convention and proposes a framework for sound legal interpretation.

Odile Ammann