The Meaning of Laws: A History of Legal Interpretation and Legal Reasoning
Benoit Frydman, LE SENS DES LOIS: HISTOIRE DE L'INTERPRETATION ET DE LA RAISON JURIDIQUE, p. 708, Paris-Bruxelles, 2005
37 Pages Posted: 7 Jan 2012
Date Written: November 6, 2011
Abstract
This book provides a history of legal thinking and reasoning. It focuses on the tools, methods and procedures to interpret legal texts. The book analyses 10 consecutive models: rhetorical; biblical-Talmudic; patristic; scholastic; geometrical; philological-historical; sociological; economical; normative-positivist and pragmatic.
Note: Downloadable document is in French.
Keywords: philosophy of law, hermeneutics, jurisprudence, interpretation, history of ideas
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Frydman, Benoit, The Meaning of Laws: A History of Legal Interpretation and Legal Reasoning (November 6, 2011). Benoit Frydman, LE SENS DES LOIS: HISTOIRE DE L'INTERPRETATION ET DE LA RAISON JURIDIQUE, p. 708, Paris-Bruxelles, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1980678
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