1. Ep. 4: Beyond Textualism Harvard Law School 37:30

In March 2023, University of Chicago Law Professor William Baude took on textualism, the increasingly common approach to legal interpretation that emphasizes the plain language of a statute. During a lecture at Harvard Law School, Baude argued that, in some cases, textualists must consider unwritten law to arrive at the correct interpretation.

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