Stanley Fish Takes on David A. Strauss

David A. Strauss, New York Times, Stanley Fish, The Constitution

Stanley Fish Takes on David A. Strauss

In Arts & Letters, Jurisprudence, Law-and-Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, The Supreme Court on May 11, 2010 at 10:09 am

In his weekly column for The New York Times, Stanley Fish takes to task David A. Strauss, whose method of constitutional interpretation, or explanation of constitutional interpretation, seems incoherent, pivoting on grand assumptions about the ways in which readers of a text construe the meaning(s) of that text.