Emmerson, Parker: Selected-Legal Nullity: A Philosophy of Law from Gappy Text, Interpretive Selection, Certificate Channels, and Attribute Failure

_The Aquamarine Law Rectifier_ 1:20. 2026This paper develops a philosophy of law from a selected-logical architecture. Its central claim is that law is not bare text plus facts. Law becomes operative only after a legal evaluator is selected: a regime of interpretation, doctrine, jurisdiction, evidentiary admissibility, procedural posture, burdens, remedies, institutional authority, and status attribution. Before such selection, many legal claims are semantically underdetermined or gappy. Across