Bederman, David J. - Classical Canons: Rhetoric, Classicism and Treaty Interpretation

Aldershot, Ashgate, (2001). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xi,340 pp, Series: Applied Legal Philosophy.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Antiquity: Classical Rhetoric & Declamation; Stasis & Questions of Legal Interpretation; Treaty Making & Interpretation in Classical Antiquity; Roman Legal Science; Ius interpretandi & Constitutio legitima; Transmission of the Classical Tradition of Legal Interpretation; Grotius & his Followers on Treaty Construction; The Anglo-American Reception; Canons of Statutory Interpretation Today; The Development of Modern Rules of Treaty Interpretation; A Primer of Modern American Treaty Interpetation; Treaty Readings by the Rehnquist Court; New Canons for Treary Construction;The Uses & Abuses of Classicism in Law.