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Legal Interpretation: The Window Of The Text As Transparent, Opaque, Or Translucent, George H. Taylor
Legal Interpretation: The Window Of The Text As Transparent, Opaque, Or Translucent, George H. Taylor
Nevada Law Journal
It is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts. I want to explore this metaphor and the insights it may offer us for better understanding legal interpretation. As in the opening epigraph from James Boyd White, I shall develop the metaphor of the text as window in three ways: the text may be transparent, opaque, or translucent. My goal will be to argue that the best way to understand legal interpretation is to conceive of the legal text as translucent, but along the way I will compare the merits also of considering …
Interpretation Or Regulation? Gaunt V. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Kenneth S. Abraham
Interpretation Or Regulation? Gaunt V. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Kenneth S. Abraham
Nevada Law Journal
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