Law’s language: meaning and normativity
Auteur :
Wodak, Daniel
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009711364
Date de publication :
11 déc. 2025
Poids :
275 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. This Element outlines what we should want from a semantics of prescriptive legal language, critically evaluates four leading semantic accounts, and argues that legal prescriptivity is not a problem for positivists.