Is originalism required by our law? We chat with Charles Barzun about his critique of the inclusive originalists, the new movement to claim that an originalist interpretive method is not only a good choice among possible methods but is the method which is mandated by a positivist approach to our law.

This show’s links:

Charles Barzun’s faculty profile and writing
Charles Barzun, The Positive U-Turn
William Baude and Stephen Sachs, The Law of Interpretation
William Baude, Is Originalism Our Law?
Oral Argument 98: T3 Jedi (guests Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen)
Scott Shapiro, Legality (Amazon and Google Books)
Brown v. Board of Education; Jack Balkin and Bruce Ackerman (eds.), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said
Charles Barzun, Inside/Out: Beyond the Internal/External Distinction in Legal Scholarship
Oral Argument 77: Jackasses Are People Too (guest Adam Kolber)
Special Guest: Charles Barzun.