Hermeneutics of Law

From Ancients to Contemporaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-18674-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Contributions to Hermeneutics

This edited volume covers the debates, discussions and controversies surrounding the foundations of legal hermeneutics, the question of methods and legal techniques of interpretation, and the conditions for a fair legal interpretation. Primary questions addressed in this work include:

• Are there legal methods of interpretation more appropriate than others? 
• Can we do without any method of interpretation and leave complete freedom in the assessment of legal texts to the Judge? 
• Is legal interpretation solely an act of will of the Judge? 

The substantial contributions are written by philosophers and jurists working in the history of legal hermeneutics: the Ancients (Juridico-Talmunic law, Roman law), the Middle-Ages (Roman-Canonical law), the Modern (Schleiermacher, Savigny, Ecole de l'Exégèse) and the contemporary era (Betti, Gadamer, Dworkin, Ricoeur, Fisch).  The book is aimed at students and researchers working in philosophy and legal theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michel, Johann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Hermeneutik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Talmudic law: a law of borderline cases.- Hermeneutics of Roman Law: A Modern Perspective.- Ancient sources, medieval interpretations:The role of legal texts in shaping medieval jurisprudence (12th-15th centuries).- The theory of interpretation in the  by Friedrich Carl von Savigny.- Law as regional hermeneutics and as special hermeneutics.- Gadamer’s Law Betti between Gadamer and Kelsen: From Interpretation as a Methodology to the Limit of Methodologism in Juridical Interpretation.-The magical Triangle of Interpretation: Meaning, Concretisation, Motivating Opinion.- Legal Hermeneutics: The Window of the Text as Transparent, Opaque, or Translucent.- Postmodern Legal Hermeneutics: Ontology, Practice, Critique.

Über Autor(innen)

Johann Michel is Professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Poitiers, a researcher attached to EHESS (Paris), and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France.He is a specialist in hermeneutics and social theory, and is the author of around fifteen works that have been translated into several foreign languages (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic), notably and . He has been Professor or keynote speaker in more than 40 foreign universities. He is a Laureate of the 2023 research prize from Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (France).