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Constitution of Practice with Prof. Marc DeGirolami
Received wisdom of the present moment in constitutional and statutory interpretation begins with the text and moves to the logic, structure, or context of that text, before then focusing on historical practice. What is the role of tradition in American constitutional law? Why do we so often keep coming back to it even when we have an elite legal culture that is now more focused than ever on ascertaining an objective meaning of text itself? That is the question at the center of Professor Marc DeGirolami’s new book, The Constitution of Practice: On Law and Tradition. It is a short book with a…
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