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Purposive interpretation in law / Aharon Barak ; translated from the Hebrew by Sari Bashi.
- Title
- Purposive interpretation in law / Aharon Barak ; translated from the Hebrew by Sari Bashi.
- Author
- Barak, Aharon.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Bashi, Sari
- Description
- xx, 423 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 - purposive interpretation - allows jurists and scholars to approach all legal texts in a similar manner while remaining sensitive to the important differences. Moreover, regardless of whether purposive interpretation amounts to a unifying theory, it would still be superior to other methods of interpretation in tackling each kind of text separately."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Parshanut takhlitit be-mishpaṭ. English
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- Parshanut takhlitit be-mishpaṭ.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. What is legal interpretation? -- Ch. 2. Non-interpretive doctrines -- Ch. 3. essence of purposive interpretation -- Ch. 4. semantic component of purposive interpretation -- Ch. 5. purposive component of purposive interpretation -- Ch. 6. Subjective purpose : authorial intent -- Ch. 7. Objective purpose : intent of the reasonable author; intent of the system -- Ch. 8. purposive component : ultimate purpose -- Ch. 9. Discretion as a component in purposive interpretation -- Ch. 10. theoretical basis for purposive interpretation -- Ch. 11. Purposive interpretation and its critique of other systems of interpretation -- Ch. 12. interpretation of wills -- Ch. 13. interpretation of contracts -- Ch. 14. Statutory interpretation -- Ch. 15. Constitutional interpretation -- App. 1. structure of legal interpretation -- App. 2. Purposive interpretation -- App. 3. Weighting subjective and objective purposes.
- ISBN
- 0691120072 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004042067
- OCLC
- 54905611
- SCSB-10216662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library