Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Hermeneuticizing the Law

Simone Glanert and Fabien Girard

PART I – A MATRIX

1 Heidegger’s Hermeneutics

Cristina Lafont

2 Understanding the Other: A Gadamerian View on Conceptual Schemes

Charles Taylor

3 Gadamer’s Interest for Legal Hermeneutics

Jean Grondin

4 The Interpretation of Foreign Law: How Germane Is Gadamer

Simone Glanert

PART II – CONCURRENCES

5 Ricœur’s Legal Hermeneutics: Mapping the Non-Place of Critique

Fabien Girard

6 Dworkin, Interpretation and Legal Change

Paul Yowell

7 Taking Stories Seriously: The Place of Narrative in Legal Interpretation

François Ost

PART III – VARIANCES / DISCREPANCIES

8 Wittgenstein on Rule-Following and Interpretation

Julia Tanney

9 Derrida’s Gadamer

Pierre Legrand

10 Habermas, Law and the European Union

William Outhwaite

11 Law’s Disappearance:

The State of Exception and the Destruction of Experience

Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

ENVOI

The Hermeneutic Character of Legal Construction

Ralf Poscher

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the Author

Simone Glanert is Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School and Director of the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law.





Fabien Girard is Assistant Professor (Maître de conférences) at the Faculty of Law, Université Grenoble Alpes.