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Justice William Johnson And The History Of Supreme Court Dissent, Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Justice William Johnson And The History Of Supreme Court Dissent, Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Journal Articles
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Promises Betrayed: Breach Of Confidence As A Remedy For Invasions Of Privacy, Susan M. Gilles
Promises Betrayed: Breach Of Confidence As A Remedy For Invasions Of Privacy, Susan M. Gilles
Buffalo Law Review
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Institutions And Linguistic Conventions: The Pragmatism Of Lieber's Legal Hermeneutics, Guyora Binder
Institutions And Linguistic Conventions: The Pragmatism Of Lieber's Legal Hermeneutics, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
This article presents Francis Lieber’s 1839 treatise “Legal and Political Hermeneutics” as a surprisingly modern and pragmatic account of interpretation. It first explicates the two most important influences on Liber’s thought, the romantic philology of Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the institutional positivism of Whig jurists Story and Kent. It shows that both of these sources frankly acknowledged that interpretation is an institutional practice, organized by the evolving aims and customs of the institutions within which it took place. Both tended to view the writing and reading of texts as the deployment of linguistic conventions. Both movements thereby viewed meaning for all …
Clinic Blockades: What Is The Problem? What Is The Harm? What Is The Solution?, Nona Laplante
Clinic Blockades: What Is The Problem? What Is The Harm? What Is The Solution?, Nona Laplante
Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy
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