Professor Joel Johnson's Article, "Ad Hoc Constructions of Penal Statutes," Featured in Divided Argument Podcast

Professor Joel S. Johnson's article "Ad Hoc Constructions of Penal Statutes," 100 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024), is featured in the Divided Argument podcast. The podcast, co-hosted by professors Will Baude of University of Chicago Law School and Dan Epps of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, provides analysis of recently decided Supreme Court cases.

The episode, titled "Reticulated Python," discusses recent cases, including Fischer v. United States and Snyder v. United States, that involve the interpretation of federal criminal statutes. The hosts describe Professor Johnson's article as a "systematic canvas" of the Supreme Court's "use of interpretive canons in [43 recent] criminal statutory interpretation cases."

The episode may be found at Divided Argument (discussion of Professor Johnson's article begins at 1:08:58).