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The Meaning of 'Le Sens des lois'

Original title (French): Le sens du Sens des lois

Revue d'histoire des Facultés de droit, 2022

Written in French — title, summary and keywords translated

Keywords

  • Legal pragmatism
  • Benoit Frydman
  • Legal literalism
  • History of legal interpretation
  • Models of interpretation
  • Demarcation between law and non-law
  • Legal hermeneutics
  • Textual interpretation
  • Legal reasoning
  • Relationship to context

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Abstract

Stefan Goltzberg critically examines Benoit Frydman's ambitious history of legal interpretation models, arguing against Frydman's pragmatic and radical rejection of demarcation between legal and non-legal interpretation. While acknowledging Frydman's significant contribution in integrating philosophical and social scientific perspectives into legal scholarship, Goltzberg nevertheless maintains that legal interpretation possesses distinctive substantive features—most notably a particular relationship to textual literalism and a characteristic minimization of historical context—that merit recognition as meaningful differences of degree between legal and non-legal hermeneutical practices. Goltzberg contends that a properly constituted history of interpretative models would reveal legal interpretation's moderate literalism as a defining characteristic.

Themes

  • Philosophy & Theory of Law
  • Argumentation & Interpretation

Cite this work

S. GOLTZBERG, « Le sens du Sens des lois », in Revue d'histoire des Facultés de droit, n° 4, 2022, pp. 1-16.
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