Topic
Statutory Interpretation
508 published works
Legal Theory Blog
Gunnarson, Phillips, & Bates on Exemptions for Religious Employers
R. Shawn Gunnarson (Kirton McConkie), James Cleith Phillips (Brigham Young University), & Christopher Bates (Kirton McConkie) have posted Religious Employment and the Tensions Between Liberty and Equality (BYU Law Review…
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Download of the Week: “The Amended Statute” by Cross
The Download of the Week is The Amended Statute by Jesse Cross. Here is the abstract: We live in a republic of amended statutes. In each Congress, our laws are…
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Cross on Amended Statutes
Jesse Cross (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted The Amended Statute (92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1291 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We live in…
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Stein on Statutory Interpretation
Alex Stein (Israel Supreme Court) has posted Between Probabilism and Pragmatism: An Essay on Statutory Interpretation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the credentials of the three…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
Construction of Wills – Will Kits
Construction means working out the true meaning of a written instrument. In the context of Wills, the purpose is to guarantee that the will-maker’s intentions are fulfilled. The fundamental task…
Regulatory Oversight
Analogies to Federal Law in the State Regulatory Context
By Robert Angle, Dabney J. Carr, Spencer Churchill, Ryan J. Strasser
This article was originally published on August 4, 2025 on Law360 and is republished here with permission. As the federal government pursues a deregulatory agenda, state regulators are increasing their enforcement activities…
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Dowload of the Week: “The Ordinary Meaning Bot” by Kruse
The Download of the Week is The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs by Johannes Kruse. Here is the abstract: This Comment shows how large language models (LLMs)…
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Kruse on LLMs and Ordinary Meaning
Johannes Kruse (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) has posted The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Comment shows…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Two takes on the Supreme Court's statutory interpretation work in <em>Hewitt</em>
In this post last month, I flagged two essays from the Sentencing Matters Substack discussing the Supreme Court's work this past Term in Esteras v. United States addressing federal supervised release…
Criminal
Two takes on the Supreme Court’s statutory interpretation work in <em>Hewitt</em>
In this post last month, I flagged two essays from the Sentencing Matters Substack discussing the Supreme Court's work this past Term in Esteras v. United States addressing federal supervised release…