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Bill Watson

@BWatson_theory

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois College of Law | JD, PhD (Philosophy) | Researching public law and jurisprudence

Champaign, IL Katılım Şubat 2022
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My article “The Plain-Meaning Fallacy” just published in the B.C. L. Rev.! My favorite illustration of the plain-meaning fallacy is originalist arguments regarding the President’s removal power—an issue pending before SCOTUS. Here’s a quick explanation 🧵 bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.70…
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Jiménez on New Legal Anti-Positivism, legaltheoryblog.com/2026/03/24/jim… - Felipe Jiménez (USC Gould School of Law) has posted Truly General Jurisprudence (Forthcoming in Legal Theory) on SSRN.
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That’s the short version of what I argue in the paper. There’s, admittedly, a lot more complexity here than can be conveyed in a social-media post. For the full version of the argument, here’s the link to the paper again: bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.70…
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There may be other constitutional issues where applying originalism makes more sense. But the removal power isn’t one them. Or at least, I’ve yet to see an originalist argument that could justify giving much, if any, weight to such deeply contested original meaning.
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Bill Watson@BWatson_theory·
My article “The Plain-Meaning Fallacy” just published in the B.C. L. Rev.! My favorite illustration of the plain-meaning fallacy is originalist arguments regarding the President’s removal power—an issue pending before SCOTUS. Here’s a quick explanation 🧵 bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.70…
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Lawrence Solum@lsolum·
Atiq on Evaluating Law as a Functional Kind, legaltheoryblog.com/2026/01/14/ati… - Emad H. Atiq (Cornell University – Sage School of Philosophy; Cornell University – Law School) has posted Justice as Law’s Constitutive Virtue: A Functional Reassessment (Forthcoming lead article, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, Vol. 7) on SSRN.
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Excited to see my paper "What Are We Debating When We Debate Legal Interpretation?" published today in the B.U. L. Rev. (@BULawReview)! Published next to it is a terrific and constructive response by Francisco Urbina. Both the paper and response are here: bu.edu/bulawreview/20…
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