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EnglishIt is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts. In legal interpretation, the metaphor has been developed in two ways – the legal text as transparent or opaque – and the Article proposes a third – the legal text as translucent. The claim that the legal text is transparent has been associated with more liberal methodological approaches. According to this view (often articulated by critics), the legal text does not markedly delimit meaning. Delimitation comes from the interpreters. By contrast, stress on the opacity of the legal text comes from those who give priority to the text rather than to any separable purpose lying behind the text. The Article’s emphasis on the legal text as translucent builds on the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and emphasizes the interrelation of text and context. To comprehend a legal text by reference to its context is to appreciate the light that the context brings to the text and renders the thickness and color of the text no longer opaque but translucent. The text is translucent to its context. The context is not outside the text but part of it. Attention to the text without regard for its external context may distort its meaning. The Article exemplifies this perspective by drawing on recent legal scholarship and applies it briefly to a decision by the United States Supreme Court. The Article frames the attention to the legal text by referencing the debate over the text as transparent, opaque, or translucent in literary and philosophic interpretation.Key words: legal interpretation, hermeneutics, Ricoeur, transparent, opaque and translucent. portuguesE uma metafora comum dizer o texto e uma janela para o mundo que retrata. Na interpretacao legal, a metafora tem sido desenvolvida de duas formas: o texto legal como transparente ou opaco – e o artigo propoe um terceiro - o texto legal como translucido. A alegacao de que o texto legal e transparente tem sido associada com abordagens metodologicas liberais. De acordo com este ponto de vista (muitas vezes discutida pelos criticos), o texto legal nao delimita claramente o significado. A delimitacao vem dos interpretes. Por outro lado, a enfase sobre a opacidade do texto legal vem daqueles que dao prioridade ao texto ao inves de outra finalidade destacada alem do texto. A enfase do artigo sobre o texto legal como translucido e baseado na hermeneutica de Paul Ricoeur e enfatiza a inter-relacao do texto e contexto. Compreender um texto legal pela referencia ao seu contexto e valorizar a luz que o contexto traz para o texto e transforma a espessura e cor do texto de opaca para translucida. O texto e translucido ao seu contexto. O contexto nao esta fora do texto, mas parte dele. Atencao ao texto sem levar em conta seu contexto externo pode distorcer o seu significado. O artigo exemplifica esta perspectiva, baseado em bolsas de estudos juridicos recentes e aplicando-a a uma decisao do Supremo Tribunal dos Estados Unidos. O artigo foca o texto legal, fazendo referencia ao debate sobre o texto o transparente, opaco ou translucido na interpretacao literaria e filosofica.Palavras-chave: interpretacao juridica, transparente, opaco e translucido.

Legal interpretation: The window of the text as transparent, opaque or translucent