This blog has on my mind for several weeks. To start at the end, I spent last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the City of Roses, which this time of year brimming with gorgeous roses. During a visit to the
International Rose Test Garden I was reminded that earlier this summer while I was struggling to write a section about the definition of a word in a constitutional provision, Shakespeare’s often-quoted lines, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” kept creeping into my mind. Then last week, right before I took off for Portland, this article showed up in an
SSRN Legal Scholarship Networkjournal:
Jeanne F. Price, Wagging Not Barking: Statutory Definitions, 60 Cleveland St. L. Rev. 999 (2013). This circle (chain? meandering path?) of events left me wandering around the rose garden on a summer Sunday afternoon thinking I should write about… legal definitions.
