Backstage Practices of Transnational Law

📘 Book Details

• Publisher: Routledge

• Author: Lianne J. M. Boer

• Language: English

• Edition: 1

• ISBN: 9780367086572

• Pages: 183

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches

📝 About The Book

The Legal Language of the Rule of Law by Lianne J. M. Boer offers a sophisticated and critical examination of how legal language shapes—and is shaped by—the concept of the rule of law in international and domestic contexts. In this thought-provoking first edition, Boer delves into the discursive and linguistic structures that sustain legal authority, exploring how meaning is produced, contested, and deployed through legal texts.

Bringing together insights from legal theory, philosophy, and linguistics, the book investigates the performative power of legal language and its central role in defining legal rationality and legitimacy. Through analytical precision and a multidisciplinary approach, Boer dissects how terms like "objectivity," "neutrality," and "justice" are mobilized in legal argumentation to uphold institutional power and norms.

Rich with theoretical depth and clarity, this work is essential reading for scholars and students in legal theory, international law, jurisprudence, and critical legal studies. It is also a valuable resource for legal practitioners and policymakers who wish to reflect on the broader implications of the language they use.

The Legal Language of the Rule of Law challenges readers to rethink the assumptions embedded in legal discourse and offers a compelling framework for understanding the law not only as a system of rules but as a complex, meaning-making practice.