Full Description
This volume examines a question of law and jurisprudencespecial rules used to interpret legal texts come from, and why do they remain significant today? This study offers an intellectual history of these rules, these canons, and concludes they originated in classical antiquity.
Contents
Antiquitylegal interpretation; treaty making and interpretation in classical antiquity; roman legal science; "Ius Interpetandi" and "Constitutio Legitima". Intermezzo: transmission of the classical tradition of legal interpretation; Grotius and his followers on treaty construction; the Anglo-American reception. Modernity: canons of statutory interpretation today; the development of modern rules of treaty interpretation; a primer on modern American treaty interpretation; treaty readings by the Rehnquist Court; new canons for treaty construction. Coda: the uses and abuses of classicism in law.
