Abstract
In his provocative and masterly book Judging Under Uncertainty Adrian Vermeule seeks to displace the dominance of what he calls first-best conceptualism in legal theory and instead argues that interpretive law needs to take an institutional turn. Vermeule's focus on the empirical problems of institutional interpretation is a welcome and long overdue contribution to legal theory. Judging Under Uncertainty is an ambitious book and a valuable contribution to legal theory. The book deals exclusively with American law and Vermeule's institutional approach to legal interpretation takes the existing status quo of the American system as a given. This, one might be tempted to complain, limits the scope and application of the institutional theory advanced by Vermeule. I shall raise some of these concerns towards the end of this review article when I consider some of the insights Canadian jurisprudence could contribute to the development on an institutional theory of legal interpretation (as well as the insights Canadian legal theorists can take from Vermeule's compelling and important arguments).
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