Overview
- Unique interdisciplinary work in an unexplored field
- A collaboration of leading historians of European law
- Provides a missing link to those working in related disciplines.
- Historical reflection on how a governing ideology actually plays out in public institutions
- Provides important relevance to various disciplines related to textual interpretation
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 95)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Nature of Legal Interpretation
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Concluding Remarks
Keywords
- Age of Enlightenment
- Ancien Régime
- Case Law Book
- Constitutionalism
- Customary Law
- Enlightenment
- Gazette des Tribunaux
- Hermeneutic
- Hobbes
- Interpretation in Law
- Interpretation in the 18th Century
- Judicial Interpretation
- Judicial Power
- Legal Interpretation
- Legal Texts
- Leibniz
- Natural Law
- Pandectists
- Private Laws
- Public Laws
- Reason in Decisions
- Roman Law
- Royal Ordinance
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
Book Subtitle: From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law
Editors: Yasutomo Morigiwa, Michael Stolleis, Jean-Louis Halperin
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1506-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1505-9Published: 01 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3773-0Published: 17 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1506-6Published: 29 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 193
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Science, Regional and Cultural Studies