Vagueness and law : philosophical and legal perspectives /

"Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keil, Geert (Editor), Poscher, Ralf (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Law > Interpretation and construction.
Law > Language.
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Vagheit
Rechtstheorie
Rechtsphilosophie
Table of Contents:
  • Vagueness and law: philosophical and legal perspectives / Geert Keil and Ralf Poscher
  • Philosophical and jurisprudential issues of vagueness / Stephen Schiffer
  • Vagueness in law: placing the blame where it's due / Diana Raffman
  • An intentionalist account of vagueness: a legal perspective / Ralf Poscher
  • Can legal practice adjudicate between theories of vagueness? / Hrafn Asgeirsson
  • Semantics, metaphysics, and objectivity in the law / Michael S. Moore
  • Pragmatic vagueness in statutory law / Andrei Marmor
  • Second-order vagueness in the law / Frederick Schauer
  • The non-conservativeness of legal definitions / Marc Andree Weber
  • The role of vagueness and context sensitivity in legal interpretation / Nikola Kompa
  • Why it is so difficult to resolve vagueness in legal interpretation / Lawrence M. Solan
  • Vagueness and political choice in law / Brian H. Bix
  • Non-epistemic uncertainty and the problem of legal line drawing / Leo Katz
  • Smoothing vague laws / Adam J. Kolber
  • How vagueness makes judges lie / Roy Sorensen
  • Clarity, thoughtfulness, and the rule of law / Jeremy Waldron.

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