Legislators And Interpreters

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745638074
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislators and Interpreters written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity. The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745673198
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislators and Interpreters written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world.Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity andpost-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks ofintellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters'with the transition from modernity to post-modernity. The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world.Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity andpost-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks ofintellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters'with the transition from modernity to post-modernity.

Author : Michael Crozier
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064975
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Left in Search of a Center written by Michael Crozier and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does leftist political thought have a future? American liberalism is being marginalized, European socialism is exhausted, and cultural radicalism has become little more than a sideshow. Contributors to The Left in Search of a Center probe questions of how political community can be imagined and constituted in the contemporary world. Together, they make it apparent that the still-emerging idea of political community is anchored in the pluralistic and cross-cultural nature of late twentieth-century Western societies

Author : Richard Ekins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164594X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Legislative Intent written by Richard Ekins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue that legislative intent is a fiction: the legislative assembly is a large, diverse group rather than a single person and it seems a mystery how the intentions of the individual legislators might somehow add up to a coherent group intention. This book argues that in enacting a statute the well-formed legislature forms and acts on a detailed intention, which is the legislative intent. The foundation of the argument is an analysis of how the members of purposive groups act together by way of common plans, sometimes forming complex group agents. The book extends this analysis to the legislature, considering what it is to legislate and how members of the assembly cooperate to legislate. The book argues that to legislate is to choose to change the law for some reason: the well-formed legislature has the capacity to consider what should be done and to act to that end. This argument is supported by reflection on the centrality of intention to the nature of language use. The book then explains in detail how members of the assembly form and act on joint intentions, which do not reduce to the intentions of each member, before outlining some implications of this account for the practice of statutory interpretation. Developing a robust account of the nature and importance of legislative intention, the book represents a significant contribution to the literature on deliberative democracy that will be of interest to all those thinking about legal interpretation and constitutional theory.

Author : Brian G. Slocum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022644516X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Legal Interpretation written by Brian G. Slocum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal texts. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? To fully engage and probe these questions of interpretation, this volume draws upon a variety of experts from several fields, who collectively examine the interpretation of legal texts. In The Nature of Legal Interpretation, the contributors argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly, expert analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts. Offering insightful new interdisciplinary perspectives on originalism and legal interpretation, these essays put forth a significant and provocative discussion of how best to characterize the nature of language in legal texts.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court Interpreters Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Cooper
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860645310
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Modernity written by John Cooper and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2000-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the ideas of a number of contemporary modernist and liberal Muslim thinkers, exposing an important intellectual current in Islamic thought which will be new to many Western readers. Responding to the challenges brought by colonialism and modernization, the contributors propose new conceptions and interpretations of Islam consonant with the age. Although their specific concerns and emphases vary, they all reconsider the relation between religion and politics and the incorporation of modern Western ideas.

Author : Richard Ekins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191645931
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Legislative Intent written by Richard Ekins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue that legislative intent is a fiction: the legislative assembly is a large, diverse group rather than a single person and it seems a mystery how the intentions of the individual legislators might somehow add up to a coherent group intention. This book argues that in enacting a statute the well-formed legislature forms and acts on a detailed intention, which is the legislative intent. The foundation of the argument is an analysis of how the members of purposive groups act together by way of common plans, sometimes forming complex group agents. The book extends this analysis to the legislature, considering what it is to legislate and how members of the assembly cooperate to legislate. The book argues that to legislate is to choose to change the law for some reason: the well-formed legislature has the capacity to consider what should be done and to act to that end. This argument is supported by reflection on the centrality of intention to the nature of language use. The book then explains in detail how members of the assembly form and act on joint intentions, which do not reduce to the intentions of each member, before outlining some implications of this account for the practice of statutory interpretation. Developing a robust account of the nature and importance of legislative intention, the book represents a significant contribution to the literature on deliberative democracy that will be of interest to all those thinking about legal interpretation and constitutional theory.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court interpreters act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonin Scalia
Publisher : West Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780314275554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Law written by Antonin Scalia and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you using a gun in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. What, exactly, is textualism? Why is strict construction a bad thing? What is the true doctrine of originalism? And which is more important: the spirit of the law, or the letter? The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated.