Legal Interpretation and Scientific Knowledge

David Duarte is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon where he was awarded his PhD. He is also a Main Researcher at CIDP—Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law and member of LxLTG (Lisbon Legal Theory Group), as well as member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Association for Legal Theory, Legal Philosophy and Social Theory (ATFD). His main fields of research are legal theory, fundamental rights, and administrative law. Pedro Moniz Lopes is an Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Lisbon – Law School, a Main Researcher at CIDP—Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law and member of LxLTG (Lisbon Legal Theory Group). He graduated, earned his Masters and completed his PhD at the University of Lisbon – Law School where he has been lecturing since 2008. His main fields of research are legal theory and legal science, constitutional and administrative law and human rights. He is the executive director of e-Pública law journal of the Lisbon Centre for Public Law. Jorge Silva Sampaio is a Ph.D. researcher and a guest lecturer at the University of Lisbon School of Law, an associate researcher at CIDP—Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law and member of LxLTG (Lisbon Legal Theory Group). His main fields of research are legal theory and legal science, constitutional and administrative law and human rights.

• The Limited Function of Hermeneutics in Law.- An Analytical Foundation of Rule Scepticism.- The Politics of Legal Interpretation.- Naturalizing Interpretation: A First Approach on “Hardware” and “Software” Determinants of Legal Interpretation.- An Almost Pure Theory of Legal Interpretation within Legal Science.- Constraining Adjudication: An Inquiry into the Nature of W. Baude’s and S. Sachs’ Law of Interpretation.- When It Is Vague What Is Vague: Identifying Vagueness.- Institutional Turn(s) in Theories of Legal Interpretation.- Legal Science: The Demarcation Problem and the Perimeter of “Good Science”.