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     • It is widely accepted that vagueness in law calls for a specific interpretation of the law—interpretation that changes the meaning of the law and makes it more precise. According to this view, vagueness causes gaps in the law, and the role of legal interpretation in the case of vagueness is to fill such gaps.
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   What is the role of legal interpretation in the case of vagueness?

   • According to this view, vagueness causes gaps in the law, and the role of legal interpretation in the case of vagueness is to fill such gaps. I argue that this view is mistaken and defend the thesis that vagueness in law calls only for an application of the law to the case at hand, leaving the meaning of the law intact.

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   What does vagueness in law mean?

   • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009 It is widely accepted that vagueness in law calls for a specific interpretation of the law—interpretation that changes the meaning of the law and makes it more precise.

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   What is vagueness and ambiguity in legal interpretation?

   • OXFORD HANDBOOK ON LANGUAGE AND LAW, Lawrence Solan & Peter Tiersma, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011 Vagueness and ambiguity are key problems in theories of legal interpretation. The article first delimits vagueness and ambiguity and sets it into relation to related phenomena like the generality of legal expressions (1).

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   Is vagueness a threat to rule of law values?

   • The last section argues that vagueness is not a threat to legal interpretation and rule of law values properly understood. It is cautious, though, with regard to some suggested values of vagueness.

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   What is a vague law?

   • Vague laws engage the practical reasoning of the people to whom it applies. Vague laws give these persons a reason to think for themselves how a vague standard should be precisified in a given situation. It takes seriously their ability for practical reasoning.

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   What are the theories of legal interpretation corresponding to an epistemic account of vagueness?

   • The theories of legal interpretation corresponding to an epistemic account of vagueness are the one-right-answer-theories advanced by Ronald Dworkin (1985a) or by moral realists like Michael Moore (2002), who argues for moral and legal kinds along the lines of the Kripke–Putnam natural kinds argument.

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   Sep 1, 2009 · It is widely accepted that vagueness in law calls for a specific interpretation of the law—interpretation that changes the meaning of the law and makes it more precise.

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   Can theories of vagueness suggest solutions to pressing questions that arise from vagueness in law? Will the conceptual distinctions between various kinds of vagueness and linguistic indeterminacy prove useful for clearing up issues in the methodology of legal interpretation?

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   This article explores ambiguity and vagueness in legal interpretation, and discusses other forms of indeterminacy, kinds of vagueness, and vagueness and the rule of law.

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   Jul 31, 2010 · Vagueness and ambiguity are key problems in theories of legal interpretation. The article first delimits vagueness and ambiguity and sets it into relation to related phenomena like the generality of legal expressions (1).

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   Sep 1, 2009 · It is widely accepted that vagueness in law calls for a specific interpretation of the law—interpretation that changes the meaning of the law and makes it more precise. According to this view, vagueness causes gaps in the law, and the role of legal interpretation in the case of vagueness is to fill such gaps.

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