Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation

Despairing Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation uncovers and analyses an interpretive responsibility in legal decision-making, whichexplains how it is that legal texts - laws, statutes and regulations - can and do have meaning.

SusannaLindroos-Hovinheimo is a researcher as the University of Helsinki. Her research includes philosophy of language, ethics, and political theory, especially theories of responsibility and justice. She has published several articles on legal interpretation.

Introduction: Postsemantic Interpretation; One: Outlining The Problems of Legal Interpretation; Two: The Shared Nature of Language; Three: Derrida on Language and Meaning; Four: Reading The Law - Hermeneutics and Deconstruction; Five: The Ethics of Language; Six: Justice; Conclusions