Textualism for Realists

Ian Samuel*

Review of Richard L. Hasen’s The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.


*Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. For their helpful comments, thanks to Will Baude, Dan Epps, Barry Friedman, Richard Re, Shalev Roisman, Shannon McHugh Samuel, Matt Owen, and Eugene Volokh. I am especially grateful to Rick Hasen himself, who both discussed the book with me in an interview and gave me written comments on an earlier draft that have substantially improved this Review.


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