Law's Language: Meaning and Normativity - Couverture rigide

Wodak, Daniel

 
9781009711364: Law's Language: Meaning and Normativity

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The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. How do we explain the meaning of prescriptive legal language? This has long been regarded as a problem for positivists, since at first glance their view suggests we can derive an ought – a legal obligation or right or permission – from descriptive social facts alone. This Element outlines what we should want from a semantics of prescriptive legal language, critically evaluates four leading semantic accounts, and argues that legal prescriptivity is not, in the end, a problem for positivists.

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9781009114073: Law’s Language

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ISBN 10 :  1009114077 ISBN 13 :  9781009114073
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025
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