Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
ISSN
0029-3571
Language
en-US
Abstract
Interpretative theory has become a major growth industry over the past two decades. Legal academics in particular have invested heavily in the enterprise, producing a burgeoning literature that addresses many of the most important problems of legal interpretation.1 The discussion to date, however, has largely neglected one critical aspect of interpretative theory: the selection of appropriate standards of proof for legal propositions. That neglect will not bother or surprise interpretative skeptics who doubt the utility of searching for "true" or "better" meanings of texts, but it ought to prove troubling to any theorist who wants to make absolute or comparative claims about legal meaning.
Recommended Citation
Gary S. Lawson,
Proving the Law
,
in
86
Northwestern University Law Review
859
(1992).
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