Linguistics for Legal Interpretation

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

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