O’Scannlain on Statutory Construction
Trial Ad (and other) Notes:
Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain discusses competing schools of statutory construction — textualism and purposivism — and comes down squarely on the side of textualism. Hon. Diarmuid. E. O’Scannlain, Lawmaking and Interpretation: The Role of a Federal Judge in Our Constitutional Framework, 91 Marq. L. Rev. 895-915 (2008). Download a pdf here; listen to a webcast here.