Add to ORKGThe principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advocates and judges to utilize the insights of three discrete disciplines apart from law: communications and linguistics to understand the way that legislative drafters use words to communicate to others, either in text or in extratextual legislative material; political science to describe the way that legislators behave in enacting statutes; and political theory to provide a normative guide for courts interpreting statutes in a constitutional democracy
No one theory or school of thought consistently dominates judicial application of statutes, but the ...
In recent years, judges and scholars in Canada and the United States are devoting more attention to ...
This article traces the problems encountered in interpreting statutes to twenty-nine distinct proble...
The principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advoca...
This article considers theories of “interpretive choice,” which deny that any particular method of i...
Statutory interpretation is at the cutting edge of legal scholarship and, now, legislative activity....
Academic ferment concerning interpretatIon has clearly reached the heady brew stage. And, with p...
Statutory interpretation involves an interpreter determining the meaning of the text on the basis of...
In the past decade the study of statutory interpretation has gone from benign neglect to intense scr...
In the last decade, statutory interpretation has reemerged as an important topic of academic theory ...
Debates about statutory interpretation typically proceed on the assumption that statutes have lingui...
How should we interpret legal instruments? How do we identify the law they create? Current approache...
against a background of clear interpretive rules, so that it may know the effect of the language it ...
This is the second of two Articles relaying the results of the most extensive survey to date of 137 ...
This Article introduces and explores an approach to, or theme within, statutory interpretation, one ...
No one theory or school of thought consistently dominates judicial application of statutes, but the ...
In recent years, judges and scholars in Canada and the United States are devoting more attention to ...
This article traces the problems encountered in interpreting statutes to twenty-nine distinct proble...
The principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advoca...
This article considers theories of “interpretive choice,” which deny that any particular method of i...
Statutory interpretation is at the cutting edge of legal scholarship and, now, legislative activity....
Academic ferment concerning interpretatIon has clearly reached the heady brew stage. And, with p...
Statutory interpretation involves an interpreter determining the meaning of the text on the basis of...
In the past decade the study of statutory interpretation has gone from benign neglect to intense scr...
In the last decade, statutory interpretation has reemerged as an important topic of academic theory ...
Debates about statutory interpretation typically proceed on the assumption that statutes have lingui...
How should we interpret legal instruments? How do we identify the law they create? Current approache...
against a background of clear interpretive rules, so that it may know the effect of the language it ...
This is the second of two Articles relaying the results of the most extensive survey to date of 137 ...
This Article introduces and explores an approach to, or theme within, statutory interpretation, one ...
No one theory or school of thought consistently dominates judicial application of statutes, but the ...
In recent years, judges and scholars in Canada and the United States are devoting more attention to ...
This article traces the problems encountered in interpreting statutes to twenty-nine distinct proble...