Goldsworthy on Interpretation of Statutes and Constitutions: Public Meaning, Intended Meaning and the Bogey of Aggregation

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.

Keywords

objective intentionalism, subjective intentionalism, conventional meanings, originalism, aggregation

Document Type

Article

Year

2019

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