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Against Pure Pragmatism in Statutory Interpretation II: Evaluating Rizzo
Part II in a 3 part Double Aspect series Continue reading
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Against Pure Pragmatism in Statutory Interpretation I
The first post in a three-part Double Aspect series. Continue reading
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Linguistic Nihilism
One common line of attack against textualism—the idea that “the words of a governing text are of paramount concern, and what they convey, in their context, is what the text means (Scalia & Garner, at 56)—is that language is never clear, or put differently, hopelessly vague or ambiguous. Put this way, the task of interpretation Continue reading
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On Canadian Statutory Interpretation and Recent Trends
I have had the pleasure of reading (for the first time front-to-back) the legal interpretation classic, Reading Law by Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner. For Canadian courts struggling with how to source and use purpose when interpreting statutes, Reading Law provides valuable assistance. It does so by outlining two schools of thought on how to Continue reading
Double Aspect 