Volume 73, Issue 3 (1995) Northwestern University / Washington University Law and Linguistics Conference
Editors Note
Editors' Foreword
The Editors
Article
Children, Curfews, and the Constitution
Katherine Hunt Federle
Conference Proceedings
Language and Self-Interest: Preliminary Notes Towards a Public Choice Approach to Legal Language
Jonathan R. Macey
Desperately Seeking Science
Francis J. Mootz III
Law and Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?
William D. Popkin
Why Linguistics?
Robert K. Rasmussen
The Limited Relevance of Plain Meaning
Stephen F. Ross
Fancy Theories of Interpretation Aren't
Larry Alexander
Faithful Interpretation
Philip P. Frickey
Regulatory Variables and Statutory Interpretation
William N. Eskridge Jr. and Judith N. Levi
The Failed Promise of Regulatory Variables
Harold J. Krent
The Meaning of Meaning in the Law
Michael L. Geis
Against a Theory of Meaning
Dennis Patterson
Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of “Use a Firearm”
Clark D. Cunningham and Charles J. Fillmore
When Worldviews Collide: Linguistic Theory Meets Legal Semantics in United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.
Craig Hoffman
Grammar and Inferences of Rationality in Interpreting the Child Pornography Statute
Jeffrey P. Kaplan and Georgia M. Green
Plain Meaning and Linguistics—A Case Study
Michael S. Moore
Introduction: "What is Meaning in a Legal Text?" A First Dialogue for Law and Linguistics
Judith N. Levi
This Is Not a Sentence
Paul F. Campos
Linguistics and Legal Epistemology: Why the Law Pays Less Attention to Linguists Than It Should
Gary S. Lawson
Notes
Recent Developments
Director Liability and the Insolvent, Federally Chartered Financial Institution: A Standard Emerges
Christopher J. Nelson