Vagueness in law can lead to indeterminacies in legal rights and obligations. This book responds to the challenges that those indeterminacies pose to theories of law and adjudication.
1. Introduction 2. Linguistic Indeterminacy 3. Sources of Indeterminacy 4. Vagueness and Legal Theory 5. How not to Solve the Paradox of the Heap 6. The Epistemic Theory of Vagueness 7. Vagueness and Similarity 8. Vagueness and Interpretation 9. The Impossibility of the Rule of Law Bibliography Index
Timothy Endicott is Fellow in Law at Balliol College, Oxford