Article Title
Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of “Use a Firearm”
Publication Title
Washington University Law Quarterly
Abstract
This Article will show how analytical methods of legal and linguistic scholarship can interact to examine a legal text, in particular a provision of the federal criminal code, the interpretation of which has been hotly contested within the legal system.
Recommended Citation
Clark D. Cunningham and Charles J. Fillmore,
Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of “Use a Firearm”,
73 Wash. U. L. Q. 1159
(1995).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol73/iss3/24
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