Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of “Use a Firearm”

Authors

Clark D. Cunningham, Washington University School of Law
Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley

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