Vagueness and Power-Delegation in Law: A Reply to Sorensen
In Michael Freeman & Fiona Smith (eds.), Current Legal Issues: Law and Language. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
| Abstract | Roy Sorensen has argued that vagueness in the law cannot be justified by appeal to the value of power-delegation, and thereby threatens to take away one of the main reasons for thinking that vagueness can be valuable to law. Delegation of power to officials is justified, he thinks, only if these officials are in a better position to discover whether a particular x is F, a condition not satisfied in cases of vagueness. I argue that Sorensen’s argument is unsound: delegation of power can be valuable even if the delegates are not in a better position to answer that question. | |||||||||
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