Cardozo Law Review de•novo
Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
A recent Article by Professors William N. Eskridge, Brian G. Slocum, and Stefan Th. Gries critically examines textualism, both in general and as applied in Bostock v. Clayton County. This Essay makes three points in reply. First, the authors criticize strawman versions of textualism that no mainstream legal interpreter claims to hold. Second, the authors’ examples of “societal dynamism” do not put any pressure on textualism properly understood. And third, the authors’ corpus-linguistics analysis of the word “sex” is, from a textualist perspective, irrelevant to the issue in Bostock.
Publisher
Cardozo Law Review de·novo
Volume
2022
First Page
41
Recommended Citation
Watson, Bill, "Textualism, Dynamism, and the Meaning of "Sex"" (2022). Cardozo Law Review de•novo. 86.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/de-novo/86
