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Legal Interpretation. Intensional and Extensional Dimensions of Statutory terms

  • Author: Michał Araszkiewicz
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Poland
  • Field of law: Legal Informatics, Artificial Intelligence & Law
  • Citation: Michał Araszkiewicz, Legal Interpretation. Intensional and Extensional Dimensions of Statutory terms, in: Jusletter IT 11 September 2014
This paper deals with semantic aspects of legal interpretation. We apply a bottom-up perspective for analysis of semantics of statutory text. Intensional and extensional aspects of statutory expressions are analyzed and presented on a diagram. It is argued that such diagram may play a role as a tool for explanation of disagreement concerning meaning of statutory terms and that it represents a typology of legal interpretive problems. It also supports the view that legal reasoning is rather constructive than reconstructive enterprise.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Grand ISSUE of Legal Interpretation
  • 3. Analysis of Examples
  • 4. Understanding Statutory Interpretation. Intensional and Extensional Dimensions of Legal Terms
  • 5. Conclusions and further Research
  • 6. References

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