Larry Alexander (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Goldsworthy on Interpretation of Statutes and Constitutions: Public Meaning, Intended Meaning and the Bogey of Aggregation (Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, 2019) (9 pages) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This chapter is for a festschrift in honor of Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Much of Goldworthy’s scholarship has been devoted to legal interpretation. I show the similarity and the difference between our views of legal interpretation.
Professor Goldsworthy, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, is perhaps the world's most prominent non-U.S. originalist scholar.
RELATED: Also recently posted by Professor Alexander: Appreciation and Responses (Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities: Essays on the Influence of Larry Alexander (H. Hurd, ed. 2018)) (79 pages). Here is the abstract:
In this concluding chapter in a festschrift volume in my honor, I respond to the twenty-three commentators on my work. The topics range widely – various issues in criminal law, constitutional law, and moral theory. The reader will judge how well I deal with the critiques of these commentators.
Thee is quite a bit of high-level originalist discussion in the contributions to the volume and in the response.
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