Friday, October 12, 2018 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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Lattimore Hall, Rochester, NY 14627
http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/events/colloquia/index.htmlLawrence M. Solan, Brooklyn Law School.
Abstract: Over the past eight years, legal analysts have begun using linguistic corpora in statutory and constitutional interpretation. Judges often presume that the legislature intends the words in laws to be understood in their ordinary sense. Similarly, the originalist movement in constitutional interpretation search for what they call “original public meaning” of terms in the Constitution. By this they mean the meaning that an educated person, living at that time, would typically assign to the term. A typical illustration is that “domestic violence” probably meant “armed insurrection” rather than “spousal abuse” at the time, and therefore, the Constitution should be understood accordingly.
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Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics.
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