Law's Language (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009711364)

The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. How do we explain the meaning of prescriptive legal language? This has long been regarded as a problem for positivists, since at first glance their view suggests we can derive an ought - a legal obligation or right or permission - from descriptive social facts alone. This Element outlines what we should want from a semantics of prescriptive legal language, critically evaluates four leading semantic accounts, and argues that legal prescriptivity is not, in the end, a problem for positivists.

Author: Daniel Wodak
ISBN-10: 1009711369
ISBN-13: 9781009711364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2025
Pages: 75
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d