Copyright Home page of Peter B. Maggs Send me email. Copyright are teaching materials prepared by me for use in a new required first year course at the University of Illinois College of Law . I am posting these materials on the World Wide Web, in the hope that law professors at other schools will consider adopting them, or even collaborating in turning them into a published casebook. Statutory Interpretation Introduces students to the legislative process, as well as to basic methods of statutory interpretation.
Students select from several sections, each focusing on a different statutory scheme.
Within that statutory context, students study basic canons of statutory interpretation, the uses of legislative history, and other issues arising in the application and interpretation of statutes. I prepared these materials in the fall of 1995, and have revised them several times since, most recently in November 2000. The cases are presented in an order based upon Copyright Law principles. This is because each case generally contains only one issue of Copyright Law, but many approaches to Statutory Interpretation. The Notes and Questions after each case attempt to highlight the Statutory Interpretation issues raised by the case.