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Concepts in LawThe Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal, or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin Debate

Concepts in Law: The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal, or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin Debate [What always puzzles lay people when they are confronted with legal documents is that unlike diagnoses of physicians or analysts reports on the stock market, legal texts almost invariably use no technical terms. But despite the familiarity of the language used, lay people still get the impression that they do not really understand the legal texts. What they experience is a well-established fact of linguistics. Different areas of discourse have their own language. And even if different areas of discourse employ the same term, it may well have a different content.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Concepts in LawThe Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal, or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin Debate

Part of the Law and Philosophy Library Book Series (volume 88)
Editors: Hage, Jaap C.; von der Pfordten, Dietmar
Poscher, Ralf
Concepts in Law — Jan 1, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-90-481-2981-2
Pages
99 –115
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-2982-9_7
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Abstract

[What always puzzles lay people when they are confronted with legal documents is that unlike diagnoses of physicians or analysts reports on the stock market, legal texts almost invariably use no technical terms. But despite the familiarity of the language used, lay people still get the impression that they do not really understand the legal texts. What they experience is a well-established fact of linguistics. Different areas of discourse have their own language. And even if different areas of discourse employ the same term, it may well have a different content.]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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