Law Is A Liberal Art, Shouldn't Follow Originalism, Dean Says

By Aebra Coe ( May 31, 2016, 8:42 PM EDT) -- The widely held perception of the law as precise, of legal discourse as an empirical reality and judicial reasoning as purely deductive, exemplified by the late Justice Antonin Scalia's public meaning originalism, is a "dangerous corrosive that eats at our democracy," according to one law school dean in a new academic paper....

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