I studied literature in college before pursing a graduate career in comparative literature. We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It ...
One of my favorite law review articles in recent years is Rick Pildes's "Institutional Formalism and Realism in Constitutional and Public Law," published in the Supreme Court Review in 2014. The basic ...
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