Dignity of Legislation and Legal Interpretation in Jeremy Waldron
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This paper intends to throw light, on the one hand, upon Waldron’s theory of legal interpretation and, on the other, upon whether or not there is a relationship between the latter and his normative theory on the sources of law. More specifically, the author wonders whether there is any relationship between the social sources thesis defended by Waldron’s normative positivism (the special dignity/authority thesis of democratic legislation) and his theory of legal interpretation (textualist or integrity thesis?). The lesson that we hope to learn from this analysis is that if one intends to make a normative theory of law, it is not possible to completely separate the static aspect of law (in this case, theory of sources) from its dynamic face (theory of legal interpretation).
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