'What’s the Plan?' On Interpretation and Meta-Interpretation in Scott Shapiro's 'Legality'
THE PLANNING THEORY OF LAW. A CRITICAL READING, D. Canale and G. Tuzet, eds., Springer, Dordrecht, 2012
19 Pages Posted: 10 Jan 2011 Last revised: 14 Aug 2012
Date Written: January 8, 2011
Abstract
The essay seeks to explain and evaluate Shapiro's theory of legal interpretation, as it is outlined in his recent book 'Legality'. More specifically, in the following I will try to provide a) a reconstruction of Shapiro's theory of legal interpretation, as it is developed in 'Legality'; b) an assessment of this theory of interpretation on its own terms (i.e., its internal coherence, its overall persuasiveness); c) an evaluation of the compatibility of this theory of legal interpretation with the general project of 'Law as Plan'.
Keywords: Legality, Law as Plan, interpretation, meta-interpretation
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