Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule — Interpretation and Institutions

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Thesis

Interpretive debates require attention to institutional capacities and dynamic effects. · ch. 0

Argument

1. Formalism’s value depends on the interpreter’s specialization level. — ch. 0

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• Interpretive debates require attention to institutional capacities and dynamic effects. — Connects to the legal-process school (Hart & Sacks), and to behavioral-economics literature on judge fallibility; also parallels the author’s other work on agency interpretation.
• Formalism’s value depends on the interpreter’s specialization level. — Connects to the broader literature on bounded rationality and division of cognitive labor in institutions. Seed
• Interpretive debates require attention to institutional capacities and dynamic effects. — An essay angle: contrasting ‘who should interpret’ with ‘how should interpretation work’ across fields — e.g., medicine, translation, or AI systems making decisions. Define
• Interpretive debates require attention to institutional capacities and dynamic effects. — Lays out the book’s core reframing: an ‘institutional turn’ that replaces the question ‘how should we interpret a text’ with ‘how should specific institutions interpret specific texts’.