Purposive Interpretation in Law / / Aharon Barak.

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• VerfasserIn: Barak, Aharon,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bashi, Sari.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 2 line illus. 1 table.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation, by a leading judge and legal theorist. Currently, legal philosophers and jurists apply different theories of interpretation to constitutions, statutes, rules, wills, and contracts. Aharon Barak argues that an alternative approach--pu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part One. Interpretation
• Chapter One. What Is Legal Interpretation?
• Chapter Two. Non-Interpretive Doctrines
• Part Two. Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Three. The Essence of Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Four. The Semantic Component of Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Five. The Purposive Component of Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Six. Subjective Purpose: Authorial Intent
• Chapter Seven. Objective Purpose: Intent of the Reasonable Author; Intent of the System
• Chapter Eight. The Purposive Component: Ultimate Purpose
• Chapter Nine. Discretion as a Component in Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Ten. The Theoretical Basis for Purposive Interpretation
• Chapter Eleven. Purposive Interpretation and Its Critique of Other Systems of Interpretation
• Part Three. Interpretation in Law
• Chapter Twelve. The Interpretation of Wills
• Chapter Thirteen. The Interpretation of Contracts
• Chapter Fourteen. Statutory Interpretation
• Chapter Fifteen. Constitutional Interpretation
• Appendix 1. The Structure of Legal Interpretation
• Appendix 2. Purposive Interpretation
• Appendix 3. Weighting Subjective and Objective Purposes
• Index