Controversies of legal interpretation: a philosophical investigation of reasoning and adjudication in some recent contentious cases

法律解释的争议：对最近一些争议案件的推理和裁决的哲学考察。自20世纪80年代以来，澳大利亚高等法院的一系列判决引发了公众对道德和政治价值观在裁决中的作用的争论。有人指责说，法官不是从事技术性的法律解释，而是从事非法的、带有政治党派色彩的解释。司法能动主义。该项目调查了隐含在这一论点中的法律解释的理论和应用问题。它反对司法激进主义的指控。它提出了一个价值最大化？推理和解释的理论，将有争议的案件的裁决定性为一个对相关道德和政治价值进行理论化的过程。

Controversies of legal interpretation: a philosophical investigation of reasoning and adjudication in some recent contentious cases. A series of High Court decisions in Australia since the 1980's generated a public controversy about the role of moral and political values in adjudication. It has been charged that judges are engaged, not in an exercise of technical legal interpretation, but rather in illegitimate and politically partisan ?judicial activism.? The project investigates the theoretical and applied questions of legal interpretation implicit in this argument. It rejects the charge of judicial activism. It proposes a ?value-maximizing? theory of reasoning and interpretation that characterizes adjudication in contentious cases as precisely a process of theorizing about relevant moral and political values.