Irving Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law: Professor Intisar Rabb, “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law,” UC Berkeley Law, April 13, 2022 @ 3:50 – 5:00 pm ET
This talk will take a comparative law look at shared methods of interpretation for textualists in two very different legal systems: American law and Islamic law. The focus is on the history and use of certain legal canons– principles of interpretation that judges derive from a kind of interpretive common law and use to resolve …