  Raz 1996c contends that while some conventions of legal interpretation vary according to time and place, there are other features which legal interpretation necessarily exhibits, owing to the nature of law itself. While we can debate about the desirability of conventions of interpretation falling into the former category (e.g. we can consider the value of allowing the work of legal academics, or records of Parliamentary debates to serve as aids to interpretation in a particular jurisdiction), the latter category of features leave us no room for manoeuvre: courts cannot help but have recourse to them in interpreting the law. According to Raz, assigning a limited role to the intentions of legislators in the interpretation of legislation is one such necessary feature of legal interpretation. It is, he claims, simply part of our way of thinking about legislative institutions that their procedures and modes of operation are designed so as to allow legislators to make the law which they intend to make. To assume otherwise, Raz contends, is to render unintelligible any possible justification for entrusting law-making powers to those institutions. This being so, when judges come to interpret the decisions of legislative institutions, they must do so such that the law thus interpreted reflects the intentions of those who made it.