As Kent Greenwalt's second volume on aspects of legal interpretation, this book analyzes statutory and common law interpretation and compares the two. In respect to statutory interpretation, it first asks whether judges are "faithful agents" of the legislature or "independent cooperative partners."
Public Law and Statutory Interpretation Principles and Practice
โ Scribed by Lisa Burton Crawford, Janina Boughey, Melissa Castan, Maria O'Sullivan
- Publisher
- Federation Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 371
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Public Law and Statutory Interpretation: Principles and Practice, Second Edition
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law. The proper means of judicial interpretation of those statutes have been the subject of great attention and dispute over the years. This book provides new ins
<p>A comprehensive analysis of theories of statutory interpretation and their use in the Rehnquist Court.</p>
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In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended that 'a subordinate and inferior class of beings' qualif
Statutory interpretation involves the reconstruction of the meaning of a legal statement when it cannot be considered as accepted or granted. This phenomenon needs to be considered not only from the legal and linguistic perspective, but also from the argumentative one - which focuses on the strategi