Moreover, if we use the term “legal interpretation” for the entire process of resolving disputes, it will not pick out a theoretically unified subject. What is involved in, for example, ascertaining the content of the law is extremely different from what is involved in fashioning new legal standards, making discretionary decisions, and deciding whether to refuse to apply the law. Understanding legal interpretation as seeking a provision’s contribution to the content of the law has the great advantage that it gives legal interpretation a theoretically unified subject matter.