- Collection:
- Sibley Lecture Series
- Title:
- There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends
- Creator:
- Fish, Stanley
- Date of Original:
- 2006-03-08
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae
University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- 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.
law and literature -- textualism
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. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_sibley/10
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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