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

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

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

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.

Manufacturer: Fred B Rothman & Co
Written By: Alan L. Dworsky

This book is the first edition of Samuel Dodd's law reports. These cases date from the last third of the 17th Century and although they were not wholly unknown, they were in law French and unindexed — and thus, generally inaccessible. These cases are primarily from the Court of King's Bench and then from the Court of Exchequer. The exchequer cases help to fill the gap of exchequer reports that ...

Manufacturer: Carolina Academic Press
Written By: Samuel Dodd, William Hamilton Bryson

"Interpreting Statutes: A Comparative Study", is a work for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence, and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyzes the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe (North, South, East and West) and America (USA and Argentina), common law and civil law; it also explores ...

Manufacturer: Dartmouth Publishing Group
Written By: D. Neil Maccormick

Manufacturer: LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Written By: Michael Sinclair