The Language of Canon Law

Judith Hahn (Professor of Canon Law, Professor of Canon Law, University of Bonn)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 May 2023

Semantics; Aspects of religion (non-Christian); Jurisprudence & general issues; Law & society

Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LAW

The Roman Catholic Church has been criticized for many reasons, including its legalism. The growing aversion of church members to the law and the church hierarchy's juridified interpretation of Christianity is fueled by the language of ecclesiastical law (medieval legal Latin), which excludes most of the faithful from understanding and participating in debates on reforming the church's legal structure.

In The Language of Canon Law, Judith Hahn explores the legal order of the Roman Catholic Church to better understand how the Roman Catholic Church communicates as a legal institution. She argues that the language of canon law reveals the political ideology of the church hierarchy, and she takes up the tools of language and law scholarship to examine and challenge that language. Examining the function of canon law language in ecclesiastical communications, she studies the character of canonical language, the grammar and terminology of canon law, and how canon law language makes use of linguistic tricks and techniques to create its typical sound. Further, Hahn discusses the comprehension difficulties that arise out of ambiguities in the law, out of transfer problems between legal and common language, and out of canon law's confusing mix of legal, doctrinal, and moral norms. An important contribution to law, language, theology, and sociology alike, this book proposes a rethinking of whether Latin is the appropriate language of a global and cross-cultural legal order like canon law, suggesting that the global church instead seek to develop a multi-language practice.

By: Judith Hahn (Professor of Canon Law Professor of Canon Law University of Bonn)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780197674246
ISBN 10: 0197674240
Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LAW
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Function of Language in Law Chapter 3: Idiosyncrasies of Legal Language Chapter 4: Comprehension Difficulties Chapter 5: Challenging Legal Incomprehension Chapter 6: A Global Law and its Language Chapter 7: Interpreting the Law Chapter 8: The Language of Legal Action Chapter 9: Conclusion Bibliography Judicature Dictionaries and Glossaries Literature Index

"Judith Hahn is a theologian and canonist. She is serving as Professor of Canon Law at the University of Bonn. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University, the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, and a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study ""Law as Culture"", Bonn. She has published on the theory and sociology of canon law and on the status of religious law in modern society, including the books Church Law in Modernity (2019) and Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law (2022)."