Interpretation and legal theory
"The claim that legal theory is best viewed in the light of a theory of interpretation is subjected here to comprehensive and critical examination. Since the interpretative theories of law call into question the main tenets of legal positivism, in method as well as in substance, Interpretation and Legal Theory sets out to re-examine legal positivism in the light of this interpretative challenge. The author argues that a theory of interpretation, adequately construed, does not undermine the main tenets of legal positivism, as its critics maintain. A general analysis of the concept of interpretation is followed by a comprehensive criticism of Professor R.M. Dworkin's highly influential theory of interpretation, plus a criticism of the semantic approach to jurisprudence which is often thought to be its main rival."
Gedrucktes Buch, English, 1992
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1992