

A perspective on comparative legal methodology and its barriers
pp. 279-294
in: Arend Soeteman (ed), Pluralism and law, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
The most outstanding and most popular theories of legal interpretation in Europe after World War II, the German legal hermeneutics and the Anglo-American objective interpretation theories of Dworkin have one characteristic in common. Both theories are not interested in drawing up a boundary between two operations, interpretation and gap-filling.