Interpreting law and literature : a hermeneutic reader

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The Constitution of the United States : contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan, Jr

Address before the D.C. chapter of the Federalist Society Lawyers Division / Edwin Meese III

Sonnet LXV and the "Black ink" of the framers' intention / Charles Fried

On sonnet LXV / Philip Martin

Counterfactuals in interpretation / E.D. Hirsch, Jr

The misconceived quest for the original understanding / Paul Brest

James Madison's theory of constitutional interpretation / H. Jefferson Powell

Dead letters : wills and poems / Michael Hancher

Statuatory interpretation and literary theory : some common concerns of an unlikely pair / Kenneth S. Abraham

An essay on constitutional language / Frederick Schauer

Law as literature / Sanford Levinson

Keep off the grass, drop dead, and other indeterminacies : a response to Sanford Levinson / Gerald Graff

On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for modern constitutional theory / Richard Weisberg

Following the rules laid down : a critique of interpretivism and neutral principles / Mark V. Tushnet

Against formalism : chickens and rocks / Walter Benn Michaels

Objectivity and interpretation / Owen M. Fiss

Fish vs. Fiss / Stanley Fish

The poetics of legal interpretation / Jessica Lane

An essay in the deconstruction of contract doctrine / Clare Dalton

Interpreting the law : hermeneutical and poststructuralist perspectives / David Couzens Hoy

Rhetorical hermeneutics / Steven Mailloux

From Constitutional fate : theory of the Constitution / Philip Bobbitt

The fate of the Constitution / Walter Benn Michaels

Judicial criticism / James Boyd White