Reading Law

Reading Law

Author: Antonin Scalia

Publisher: West Publishing Company

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780314275554

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In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you using a gun in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. What, exactly, is textualism? Why is strict construction a bad thing? What is the true doctrine of originalism? And which is more important: the spirit of the law, or the letter? The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated.


Handbook on Statutory Interpretation

Handbook on Statutory Interpretation

Author: Stéphane Beaulac

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780433453383

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This book offers readers concise and user-friendly tools to help articulate the most powerful arguments to identify the legislative intent found in the statute. It provides: examples and illustrations from across Canada's federal and provincial jurisdictions; detailed analysis of the key judicial decisions and a table of cases that practitioners in particular will find extremely valuable, as well as a reproduction of both the Interpretation Act (Canada) and Interpretation Act (Quebec).


Statutory Construction and Interpretation

Statutory Construction and Interpretation

Author:

Publisher: The Capitol Net Inc

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1587332132

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This book reviews the primary rules courts apply to discern a statute's meaning. However, each matter of interpretation before a court presents its own challenges, and there is no unified, systematic approach used in all cases. While schools of statutory interpretation may vary on what factors should be considered, all approaches start (if not necessarily end) with the language and structure of the statute itself. In analyzing a statute's text, courts are guided by the basic principle that a statute should be read as a harmonious whole, with its separate parts being interpreted within their broader statutory context.


Modern Statutory Interpretation

Modern Statutory Interpretation

Author: Jeffrey Barnes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 1108816029

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Modern Statutory Interpretation is an original, clear, coherent and research-based account of contemporary Australian statutory interpretation. It provides a comprehensive coverage of statutory interpretation law, legislative drafting, the parliamentary process, the modern history of interpretation, sources of doubt, and interpretation techniques.


Statutes and statutory construction

Statutes and statutory construction

Author: J.G. Sutherland

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 5876844616

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Including a discussion of legislative powers, constitutional regulations relative to the forms of legislation and to legislative procedure.


Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Author: William N. Eskridge (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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Suitable for students or practitioners, this authoritative overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation moves smoothly and understandably between the theoretical and the practical. It contains in-depth discussion of such topics as theories of legislation and representation, electoral and legislative structures, extrinsic sources for statutory interpretation, and substantive canons of statutory interpretation. Reap the benefits of the authors' experience, opinions, and insight and gain a working knowledge of the area.


Statutory Interpretation

Statutory Interpretation

Author: Caleb Nelson

Publisher: Foundation Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781599417707

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Nelson's Statutory Interpretation aspires both to train students in the techniques of statutory interpretation and to help students think systematically about those techniques. It presents lightly edited judicial opinions in leading cases, followed by extensive notes and questions that encourage careful analysis of difficult concepts. It takes seriously both "textualist" and "intentionalist" (or "purposivist") modes of statutory interpretation ; approaches that are common at all levels of the judiciary.


Mastering Statutory Interpretation

Mastering Statutory Interpretation

Author: Linda D. Jellum

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611634563

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Mastering Statutory Interpretation explains the methods of interpreting statutes, including a discussion of the various theories and canons of interpretation. The book begins by exploring these theories and identifying the sources of meaning the theorists use to interpret statutes, including intrinsic, extrinsic, and policy-based. Throughout, the text uses the major cases in each area of study to explain how the canons work in practice. Finally, each chapter provides a concise roadmap and summary to introduce and encapsulate the most important material. The second edition adds one new chapter to address the administrative issues that faculty teaching legislation and regulation need, as well as a running hypothetical to help students better implement what they are learning.


Statutory Default Rules

Statutory Default Rules

Author: Einer Elhauge

Publisher:

Published: 2008-02-28

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Most new law is statutory law; that is, law enacted by legislators. An important question, therefore, is how should this law be interpreted by courts and agencies, especially when the text of a statute is not entirely clear. This book focuses on what judges should do once the legal materials fail to resolve the interpretive question.