Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy

Obscurity and Clarity in the Law

Prospects and Challenges
Herausgeber: Wagner, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the intricate and multi-dimensional conception of clarity and obscurity in the law. It presents and examines the most recent research and theories, giving practical guidance on how to avoid obscurity in legal drafting and its impact on legal interpretation. The book is aimed at a multidisciplinary audience and seeks to promote an interdisciplinary debate on clarity, law and language, calling for the moving of clarity beyond the study of plain language. The aims of the book are thus two fold. The first is to critically reach a nexus between the disciplines of law and language with respect to the debates on clarity in legal discourse. The second is to achieve an international perspective on the issue, drawing from a wide range of legal and political contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780754671435
• ISBN-10: 0754671437
• Artikelnr.: 45600816

Autorenporträt

Anne Wagner, is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics., Université du Littoral Cÿte d'Opale, France and Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy is a lecturer in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: the chiaroscuro of legal language, Sophie
Cacciaguidi-Fahy and Anne Wagner; Part 1 Crossroads Between Law and
Language: The ambiguous principle of the clarity of the law, Alexandre
Flÿckiger; Objectivity and subjectivity in interpretation, James Kessler;
Rules and statements, Louis E. Wolcher; Unravelling the legislator's
tapestry: judicial needlework on encroachment cases, Anne-Françoise
Debruche; Customising the model law on international commercial
arbitration, Maurizio Gotti; Is the Chinese legal language more ambiguous
and vaguer? Deborah Cao. Part 2 An International Perspective: Conceptual
and textual structure in legislative texts, Andreas Lötscher; Finland
makes its statutes intelligible: good intentions and practicalities, Aino
Piehl; The Swedish approach to clear legislation and clear official texts,
Barbro Ehrenberg-Sundin; What, how, when and why - making laws easier to
understand by using examples and notes, Ben Piper; The illusion of clarity
- a critique of 'pure' clarity using examples drawn from judicial
interpretations of the Constitution of the United States, M. Douglass
Bellis; Between obscurity and clarity in Nigerian legal discourse: aspects
of language use in selected written texts, Tunde Opeibi; Bibliography;
Index.