This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of
comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or
other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses
the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as
well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores
implications for general theories of interpretation and of
justification. Its authors, who include Aulis Aarnio, Robert Alexy, Ralf
Dreier, Enrique Zuleta-Puceiro, Michel Troper, Christophe Grzegorczyk,
Jean-Louis Gardes, Enrico Pattaro, Michele Taruffo, Massimo La Torre,
Jerry Wroblewski, Alexsander Peczenik, Gunnar Bergholtz and Zenon
Bankowski, as well as editors Robert S. Summers and D. Neil MacCormick,
constitute an international team of great distinction; they have worked
on this project for over seven years.