Statute reading can prompt more questions than answers largely because statutes often suffer from ambiguities, inconsistencies, or complete gaps in meaning. Statutory Interpretation: The Search for Legislative Intent is the first book to provide judges, lawyers, and law students with a handy source to find the proper methods and tools of statutory interpretation. This concise 4-x-6-inch ...

Manufacturer: National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Written By: Ronald Benton Brown, Sharon Jacobs Brown

Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.

Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
Written By: Abner J. Mikva, Eric Lane

This guide provides a time-saving reference for the latest case law, the most recent legislation affecting rulemaking, and developments in Clinton Administration. made.

Manufacturer: American Bar Association
Written By: Jeffrey S. Lubbers

Manufacturer: West Group
Written By: Ohio

Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies. It does so, first of all, because it involves richer authoritative texts than does either common law or ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: William N. Eskridge Jr.

The Supreme Court has been the site of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of over four hundred of the most important cases ever argued before the Court, from Marbury v. Madison and Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision) to ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA

Manufacturer: Collier Books

The publication is an overview of the field of statutory interpretation.

Manufacturer: Foundation Press
Written By: Kent Greenawalt

Contains an introduction to legislation; descriptive and normative theories of legislation, including procedural theories of legislation, pluralism and interest groups, and institutional theories of legislation; Title VII: interpretive issues and political theories, the Supreme Court's decision in Griggs, affirmative action United States Steelworkers of America v. Weber and ...

Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
Written By: William N., Jr. Eskridge, Philip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett

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. You'll find in-depth discussion of such topics as theories of legislation and representation, electoral and legislative structures, extrinsic sources for statutory interpretation, and substantive ...

Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
Written By: William N., Jr. Eskridge, Philip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett