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The Supreme Court’s misinterpretation of the word “because”
[This post has been revised; see my note at the bottom.] The post before this one, dealing with the dueling canons in Lockhart v. United States, was my first after a gap of more than two years. In my...
View ArticleVoting rights and the language of causation
Last week the Supreme Court heard Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, a big voting-rights case that—as I only recently learned—involves a statute raising a linguistic issue similar to the one I...
View ArticleWhen is corpus linguistics (in)appropriate?
I’ve posted the paper that I presented at this year’s Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference at the BYU Law School. It’s titled “Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation: When Is It...
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