Classical Canons
Rhetoric, Classicism and Treaty Interpretation
Published on 27. March 2001
Book
Hardback
354 pages
978-0-7546-2161-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines a question of law and jurisprudence: where did the special rules used to interpret legal texts come from, and why do they remain significant today? This study offers an intellectual history of these rules, these "canons", and concludes they originated in classical antiquity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 238 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2161-4 (9780754621614)
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David J.Bederman
Classical Canons: Rhetoric, Classicism and Treaty Interpretation
Rhetoric, Classicism and Treaty Interpretation
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Content
Antiquity: classical rhetoric and declamation; stasis and questions of legal interpretation; treaty making and interpretation in classical antiquity; roman legal science; "Ius Interpetandi" and "Constitutio Legitima". Intermezzo: transmission of the classical tradition of legal interpretation; Grotius and his followers on treaty construction; the Anglo-American reception. Modernity: canons of statutory interpretation today; the development of modern rules of treaty interpretation; a primer on modern American treaty interpretation; treaty readings by the Rehnquist Court; new canons for treaty construction. Coda: the uses and abuses of classicism in law.