Saturday, September 18, 2010

Dictum of the day, or on exegesis

Mr. President, Members of the Court, we saw yesterday some impressive examples of textual exegesis from Messrs. Wordsworth and Pellet, I thought for a while we were in a Faculty of Scriptural Studies. But it was exegesis gone wild, producing results that cannot possibly have been intended.

Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation), International Court of Justice, James Crawford, Oral Argument for Georgia, 14 September 2010, para. 3.

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