interpretation
p 129 of Gustav Radbruch&#39;s Einf&#252;hrung in Die Rechtswissenschaft
<p>My local library doesn't subscribe to <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/RADEID" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PhilPapers</a>. Anyone here have it pls? No library near me has this German book. </p>

<p>Robert Schütze. <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/eu-law-9780198714927?cc=ca&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>European Union Law</em> 2 ed 2018</a>. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LzNlDwAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PA206&amp;ots=B43pF3QgKD&amp;dq=%22functionaries%20of%20the%20case%20law%22&amp;pg=PA206#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">p. 211</a>. All emboldenings are mine. 
Pls see the tag line beside the red arrow</p>

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  <p>In the beautifully paradoxical words of G. Radbruch: ‘The interpretation is the result of
  <strong>its</strong> result.’ See G. Radbruch, <em>Einführung in die Rechtswissenschaft</em> (Meyer, 1925), 129.</p>
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<li><p>What does "its" refer to it here? </p></li>
<li><p>I don't speak German like the author. Can someone explain these "beautifully paradoxical words like I'm 5?</p></li>
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  <p>Can someone explain these "beautifully paradoxical words like I'm 5?</p>
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<p>Aside from [not] having access to the text by Radbruch, the reasonable conjecture is that the quote of Radbruch paraphrases what Schütze says in the main text: namely, that a judge's choice of "interpretative method" (historical, literal, systematic, or teleological) somewhat determines or helps to predict how he will decide a case.</p>

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  <p>What does "its" refer to it here?</p>
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<p>The emboldened "its" likely refers to the judge's <em>interpretative method</em>, although that is inconsequential since Schütze premises that quote with words that convey similarity with the expression "<em>[a] judicial preference for an interpretative method will thus prejudge the result of the interpretation</em>".</p>
