"Renowned Scholar Stanley Fish Discusses the Interpretation of Text" by Allison Pruitt
 

Renowned Scholar Stanley Fish Discusses the Interpretation of Text

Allison Pruitt, Office of Communications and Public Relations, University of Georgia School of Law

Published in The Advocate, Spring/Summer 2006, Vol. 40, No. 2

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, according to Stanley Fish, a nationally recognized legal and literary scholar, who delivered the 101st Sibley Lecture at the University of Georgia School of Law in March 2006.