Law, institutions, and interpretation in Jacques Derrida

European Memories: Jan Patočka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

Annotated Bibliography Law and Justice Institutions

Refinement by interpretation in {\pi}-institutions

The paper discusses the role of interpretations, understood as multifunctions that preserve and reflect logical consequence, as refinement witnesses in the general setting of π-institutions. This leads to a smooth generalization of the “refinement by interpretation” approach, recently introduced by the authors in more specific contexts. As a second, yet related contribution a basis is provided ...

56 Positive Institutions , Law , and Policy

We analyze how positive institutions—democracy, strong families, free inquiry, free press, schools, businesses, communities, societies, work, and culture—can help foster human flourishing. We provide four examples of positive law and policy to illustrate the important role legal and social institutions can play in facilitating positive psychology. First, we explore positive psychology’s potenti...

Law as Interpretation

and a concrete intention here: the delegate intends to prohibit discrimination in whatever in fact is of fundamental interest and also intends not to prohibit segregated schools. These are not isolated, discrete intentions; our descriptions, we might say, describe the same intention in different ways. But it matters very much which description a theory of legislative intention accepts as canoni...