Title
There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends
Abstract
Textualists – those who interpret the law or the Constitution by determining what its text meant when the statute or law was ratified – are wrong. The only true meaning of any text is the meaning that its author intends.
Repository Citation
Fish, Stanley, "There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends" (2006). Sibley Lectures. Paper 10.
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_sibley/10
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Renowned scholar Stanley Fish discusses the interpretation of text, The Advocate, Spring/Summer 2006, Vol. 40, No. 2
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Renowned legal and literary scholar Stanley Fish to deliver Sibley Lecture, Press Release, 2/22/06
sibley_sp06_program.pdf (162 kB)
Program
Renowned scholar Stanley Fish discusses the interpretation of text, The Advocate, Spring/Summer 2006, Vol. 40, No. 2
fishpressrelease.pdf (7 kB)
Renowned legal and literary scholar Stanley Fish to deliver Sibley Lecture, Press Release, 2/22/06
sibley_sp06_program.pdf (162 kB)
Program
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Stanley Fish, a nationally recognized legal and literary scholar, delivered the 101st Sibley Lecture at the University of Georgia School of Law on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 4:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom.