Statutes in Court
Subtitle: The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780822323280
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law; Public Law; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Legal Profession; Legal Studies; Political Science/European Pol; cloth; Legal History; History; Interpretation and constructio; Interpretation and construction; Judicial discretion; United States
Description: "How do judges determine the meaning of laws? The extent to which judges should exercise their discretion in interpreting legislation has been a contentious issue throughout American history, involving questions about the balance of power between the legislature and the judiciary. In Statutes in Court William D.

Popkin provides a survey of the history of American statutory interpretation and then offers his own theory of "ordinary judging" that defines the proper scope of judicial discretion."--BOOK JACKET.