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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Nature and Value of Vagueness in the Law by Hrafn Asgeirsson
Lawmaking is - paradigmatically - a type of speech act: people make law by saying things. It is natural to think therefore that the content of the law is determined by what lawmakers communicate. However it is sometimes vague what content they communicate and even when it is clear the content itself is sometimes vague. This book examines the nature and consequences of these two linguistic sources of indeterminacy and answers three related questions: 1. In virtue of what is the law vague? 2. What might be good about vague law? 3. How should courts resolve cases of vagueness?