Institutions and Linguistic Conventions: The Pragmatism of Lieber's Legal Hermeneutics

Authors

Guyora Binder, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

Abstract

Like many other forms of social thought, legal theory has, over the last quarter century, taken an "interpretive" turn. Recent and contemporary writing on legal hermeneutics may be credited with two sensible but unsurprising claims about legal language.

Keywords

Hermeneutics, Legal Analysis and Writing, Contracts

Disciplines

Contracts | Law

Recommended Citation

Guyora Binder, Institutions and Linguistic Conventions: The Pragmatism of Lieber's Legal Hermeneutics, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 2169 (1995).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol16/iss6/8