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Gun Rights Talk, Joseph Blocher
Interpretation And Judgment, Kent Greenawalt
Interpretation And Judgment, Kent Greenawalt
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The major conclusions in Georgia Warnke's illuminating Essay, Law, Hermeneutics, and Public Debate are persuasive, but some that appear almost self-evident instead rest on controversial evaluative judgments. Many of my comments deal with these complexities, drawing from her book on interpretation and political theory as well as her Essay. Other remarks develop subjects Warnke barely touches. My thoughts are, thus, some combination of clarification, supplementation, and disagreement.
My initial effort is to refine in just what senses interpretations of texts, social practices, and legal rules must speak to our concerns. I next explore how interpretations of legal texts that are …
The Search For An Author: Shakespeare And The Framers, James Boyle
The Search For An Author: Shakespeare And The Framers, James Boyle
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Substance, Process And Outcome In Constitutional Theory, David B. Lyons
Substance, Process And Outcome In Constitutional Theory, David B. Lyons
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Scholarship in philosophy proceeds at a slower pace than in the law. As Tom Lehrer, the poet laureate of a recent generation, might have said, the law biz travels on a faster track. Or so it seems to a philosopher who has recently been treading the tracks of constitutional lawyers.
And so it is with apprehension that I take as my text a book that was published as long ago as 1980. As the title of this lecture might suggest to someone with so long a memory, the book is John Hart Ely's Democracy and Distrust.' That work provoked an …