Edited by Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Francesca Poggi, Department 'Cesare Beccaria', University of Milan, Milan, Italy and Izabela Skoczeń, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

‘This volume makes important contributions to the literature on legal interpretation and is essential reading for any jurisprudential scholar or legal practitioner concerned to understand how the content of the law depends on the communicative content that lawgivers intend to transmit. A very worthwhile read.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to Interpretivism and the Limits of Law 1Izabela SkoczeńPART I LEGAL REASONING THROUGH THE LENSOF INTERPRETIVISM2 Practical reasoning and the communicative model of law 12Brian H Bix3 Legal antipositivism and the reliability challenge in metaethics 23David Plunkett4 The meaning and interpretation of statutes inAnglo-American legal systems 43Jeffrey Goldsworthy5 The communication theory as a phantom 60Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki and Francesca PoggiPART II INTERPRETIVISM VERSUS THECOMMUNICATIVE MODEL OF LEGAL REASONING6 Why the anti-positivists’ concept of practice is too thin 77Marcin Matczak7 Legal interpretivism: all or some? 96Adam Dyrda8 Interpretation and the bounds of reason 113Giovanni TuzetPART III LEGAL INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL MEANING9 The authoritative intention thesis 130Torben Spaak10 Distinguishing the distinguishable: interpretative normsand interpretative criteria in adjudication of meaning 146David Duarte and Pedro Moniz Lopes11 From rule-scepticism to the interpretive orthodoxy? OnWittgenstein, legal theory, and the difference betweenunderstanding and interpreting a rule 159Paolo SandroPART IV THE SEMANTICS AND META-SEMANTICSOF LEGAL CONTENT12 Semantic theories and interpretation: a critique of MichaelS Green’s ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy’ 176Thomas Bustamante and Thiago Lopes Decat13 When expressiveness flows back: the symbolic functionsof legislation and their legal significance 194Francesco Ferraro14 Expressivism and the ex aequo et bono adjudication method 212Izabela Skoczeń and Krzysztof Posłajko15 Semantics of institutional names 229Paweł BanaśIndex 246

Edited by Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Francesca Poggi, Department 'Cesare Beccaria', University of Milan, Milan, Italy and Izabela Skoczeń, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

‘This volume makes important contributions to the literature on legal interpretation and is essential reading for any jurisprudential scholar or legal practitioner concerned to understand how the content of the law depends on the communicative content that lawgivers intend to transmit. A very worthwhile read.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to Interpretivism and the Limits of Law 1Izabela SkoczeńPART I LEGAL REASONING THROUGH THE LENSOF INTERPRETIVISM2 Practical reasoning and the communicative model of law 12Brian H Bix3 Legal antipositivism and the reliability challenge in metaethics 23David Plunkett4 The meaning and interpretation of statutes inAnglo-American legal systems 43Jeffrey Goldsworthy5 The communication theory as a phantom 60Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki and Francesca PoggiPART II INTERPRETIVISM VERSUS THECOMMUNICATIVE MODEL OF LEGAL REASONING6 Why the anti-positivists’ concept of practice is too thin 77Marcin Matczak7 Legal interpretivism: all or some? 96Adam Dyrda8 Interpretation and the bounds of reason 113Giovanni TuzetPART III LEGAL INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL MEANING9 The authoritative intention thesis 130Torben Spaak10 Distinguishing the distinguishable: interpretative normsand interpretative criteria in adjudication of meaning 146David Duarte and Pedro Moniz Lopes11 From rule-scepticism to the interpretive orthodoxy? OnWittgenstein, legal theory, and the difference betweenunderstanding and interpreting a rule 159Paolo SandroPART IV THE SEMANTICS AND META-SEMANTICSOF LEGAL CONTENT12 Semantic theories and interpretation: a critique of MichaelS Green’s ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy’ 176Thomas Bustamante and Thiago Lopes Decat13 When expressiveness flows back: the symbolic functionsof legislation and their legal significance 194Francesco Ferraro14 Expressivism and the ex aequo et bono adjudication method 212Izabela Skoczeń and Krzysztof Posłajko15 Semantics of institutional names 229Paweł BanaśIndex 246

Edited by Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Francesca Poggi, Department 'Cesare Beccaria', University of Milan, Milan, Italy and Izabela Skoczeń, Department of Legal Theory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

‘This volume makes important contributions to the literature on legal interpretation and is essential reading for any jurisprudential scholar or legal practitioner concerned to understand how the content of the law depends on the communicative content that lawgivers intend to transmit. A very worthwhile read.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to Interpretivism and the Limits of Law 1Izabela SkoczeńPART I LEGAL REASONING THROUGH THE LENSOF INTERPRETIVISM2 Practical reasoning and the communicative model of law 12Brian H Bix3 Legal antipositivism and the reliability challenge in metaethics 23David Plunkett4 The meaning and interpretation of statutes inAnglo-American legal systems 43Jeffrey Goldsworthy5 The communication theory as a phantom 60Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki and Francesca PoggiPART II INTERPRETIVISM VERSUS THECOMMUNICATIVE MODEL OF LEGAL REASONING6 Why the anti-positivists’ concept of practice is too thin 77Marcin Matczak7 Legal interpretivism: all or some? 96Adam Dyrda8 Interpretation and the bounds of reason 113Giovanni TuzetPART III LEGAL INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL MEANING9 The authoritative intention thesis 130Torben Spaak10 Distinguishing the distinguishable: interpretative normsand interpretative criteria in adjudication of meaning 146David Duarte and Pedro Moniz Lopes11 From rule-scepticism to the interpretive orthodoxy? OnWittgenstein, legal theory, and the difference betweenunderstanding and interpreting a rule 159Paolo SandroPART IV THE SEMANTICS AND META-SEMANTICSOF LEGAL CONTENT12 Semantic theories and interpretation: a critique of MichaelS Green’s ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy’ 176Thomas Bustamante and Thiago Lopes Decat13 When expressiveness flows back: the symbolic functionsof legislation and their legal significance 194Francesco Ferraro14 Expressivism and the ex aequo et bono adjudication method 212Izabela Skoczeń and Krzysztof Posłajko15 Semantics of institutional names 229Paweł BanaśIndex 246