Legislative Law and Statutory Interpretation: Cases and Materials

Hetzel, Otto; Libonati, Michael; Williams, Robert

ISBN 10: 1422407454 / ISBN 13: 9781422407455

Published by Carolina Academic Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Legislative Law and Statutory Interpretation: Cases and Materials
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1422407454
• ISBN 13: 9781422407455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Based on the premise that the study of legislation requires more than simply an inquiry into the courts' efforts at legislative interpretation, this casebook employs a variety of approaches to convey the legislature's role in shaping the law, including political science materials, case studies, and appellate cases. Statutory interpretation is the central element of a course on Legislation and each chapter incorporates the basics of interpretation to clarify how each topic fits in with the course as a whole.

The authors first introduce students to legislation as the primary vehicle for making the law, before discussing the interaction of legislation and common law. They then address the structure of operation of the legislature as an institution of government to provide a foundation for approaches to interpretation stressing legislative purpose and legislative history. Discussion of the variety of legislative process restrictions applicable to legislative lawmaking introduces students to the anatomy of a statute and the formal and procedural constraints imposed by federal and state constitutions on the lawmaking process. With regard to statutory interpretation, a new way of organizing text-based arguments beyond plain-meaning interpretation precedes intent-based approaches to interpretation, in turn followed by canon-based arguments demonstrating the weaknesses inherent in their use.

Legislative Law and Statutory Interpretation then covers five broad areas generally organized to reflect questions of institutional (judicial or legislative) competence, including materials on clear statement requirements, retroactivity, severability, deference to administrative agency decisionmaking, and overruling of statutory precedents, and interpretation of state statutes by federal courts and vice versa.

This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

About the Authors

The Late Otto Hetzel was a Professor of Law Emeritus at Wayne State University Law School.

Emeritus, Temple University James E Beasley School of Law

Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Camden