Assorted Canards of Contemporary Analysis Redux
Date of Event
9-19-2019
Lecture Series
Sumner Canary Lecture
Subject Headings
legal reasoning, legal analysis, judicial opinions, statutory analysis, textualism, jurisprudence
Location
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Document Type
Video
Recommended Citation
Barrett, Honorable Amy Coney, "Assorted Canards of Contemporary Analysis Redux" (2019). Conferences and Symposia. 7.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/law_videos_general/7
COinS
Comments
The Honorable Amy Coney Barrett U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In the fall of 1989, Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the Eleventh Sumner Canary Lecture. It was entitled “Assorted Canards of Contemporary Legal Analysis,” and in it, Justice Scalia described some “ritual errors” of legal reasoning that populate judicial opinions. In this lecture, Judge Amy Coney Barrett will mark the 30th anniversary of Justice Scalia’s lecture by revisiting the same topic. She will consider whether the errors that Justice Scalia identified are still around, and she will highlight some of her own quarrels with legal analysis as it stands in 2019.