Are Judges Competent to Determine Original Meaning? [No. 86]

Professor Ilan Wurman discusses how judges are required to do research and make decisions on a variety of legal topics. Judges are just as qualified to research the original meaning of the law as they are to interpret language or economic arguments.

Ilan Wurman is a visiting assistant professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He is the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017).

As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

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