Topic
Statutory Interpretation
508 published works
Legal Secrets
How to Count like an Attorney (Business vs. Court vs. Calendar Days)
The statutes differentiate between calendar, business and court days. Sometimes a due date is longer or shorter than you may think. Here are two links to help: The Los Angeles…
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Corpus Linguistics Re-Redux
Main Monday, September 25, 2017Corpus Linguistics Re-ReduxSince my last post on Corpus Linguistics two weeks ago, several things have happened in the corpus linguistics world that Iād like to discuss:…
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More on Corpus Linguistics and the Criminal Law
Main Monday, September 11, 2017More on Corpus Linguistics and the Criminal LawWhen people ask me why I became a law professor, I have an endless list of reasons at my…
Media Law Prof Blog
Reynolds on The LImits of Statutory Interpretation: Towards Explicit Engagement, By the Supreme Court of Canada, With the Charter Right to Freedom of Expression in the Context of Copyright
Graham J. Reynolds, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, has published The Limits of Statutory Interpretation: Towards Explicit Engagement, by the Supreme Court of Canada, with the Charter Right…
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Corpus Linguistics and Criminal Law
Main Wednesday, September 06, 2017Corpus Linguistics and Criminal LawIn January of 2017, the Federalist Society hosted a panel on statutory interpretation at its annual faculty conference. The panel promoted a…
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DACA, the Travel Ban, and Presidential Power: Coming Clean on How Policy Preferences Really Drive Legal Interpretation
Main Tuesday, September 05, 2017DACA, the Travel Ban, and Presidential Power: Coming Clean on How Policy Preferences Really Drive Legal InterpretationTrump supports a broad construction of his powers under a…
Employment Law Worldview
Mind the gap ā a note for the statutory construction industry
And here is why we should be careful when construing employment law statutes about attaching too much importance to contrasts between different legislative provisions. I don't pretend to have spotted…
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Why the “Plain Statement Rule” for Statutory Interpretation is Normatively Justifiable But Practically Impossible
Main Wednesday, July 26, 2017Why the "Plain Statement Rule" for Statutory Interpretation is Normatively Justifiable But Practically ImpossibleAs Will Baude and Ryan Doerfler note in their elegant and provocative essay,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Rewritten Feminist Judgments: The Tax Opinions
By Tracy Thomas
Bridget Crawford & Anthony Infanti, Introduction to Feminist Judgments, to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Bridget J. Crawford & Anthony C. Infanti eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017, Forthcoming).Could a feminist perspective change…
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SCOTUS Symposium: Perry v. MSPB
Main Monday, June 26, 2017SCOTUS Symposium: Perry v. MSPBI wrote an analysis for SCOTUSBlog of Friday's opinion in Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board. My post-argument prediction that Justice Gorsuch…