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Article: Meaning, time and the law: Ex post and ex ante perspectives
Title | Meaning, time and the law: Ex post and ex ante perspectives |
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Issue Date | 2009 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0952-8059 |
Citation | International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law, 2009, v. 22 n. 3, p. 279-292 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper considers the tension between timelessness and timeboundedness in legal interpretation, examining parallels between sacred texts and secular law. It is argued that familiar dualities such as those between statute and judge-made law, law and equity, written and spoken discourse, dictionary meaning versus intended or contextual meaning, can be examined using this timeless/timebounded framework. Two landmark English cases, DPP v Shaw (1961) and R v R (1991) are analyzed as illustrating contrasting aspects of the socio-legal politics of "reasoning backwards". The related temporal distinction between ex ante and ex post points of view is examined both within legal theory and as a key issue for linguistic and semiotic systems. The argument is made that this distinction is the key to a wide range of methodological and theoretical problems in relating linguistics and semiotics to law. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177609 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.332 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Hutton, C | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-19T09:37:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-19T09:37:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal For The Semiotics Of Law, 2009, v. 22 n. 3, p. 279-292 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0952-8059 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177609 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper considers the tension between timelessness and timeboundedness in legal interpretation, examining parallels between sacred texts and secular law. It is argued that familiar dualities such as those between statute and judge-made law, law and equity, written and spoken discourse, dictionary meaning versus intended or contextual meaning, can be examined using this timeless/timebounded framework. Two landmark English cases, DPP v Shaw (1961) and R v R (1991) are analyzed as illustrating contrasting aspects of the socio-legal politics of "reasoning backwards". The related temporal distinction between ex ante and ex post points of view is examined both within legal theory and as a key issue for linguistic and semiotic systems. The argument is made that this distinction is the key to a wide range of methodological and theoretical problems in relating linguistics and semiotics to law. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag Dordrecht. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0952-8059 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal for the Semiotics of Law | en_US |
dc.title | Meaning, time and the law: Ex post and ex ante perspectives | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Hutton, C: chutton@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Hutton, C=rp01161 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11196-009-9113-9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-71349088309 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-71349088309&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 22 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 279 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 292 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000436660900002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Hutton, C=7005571692 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 5186325 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0952-8059 | - |