Statutory and common law interpretation
By: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780199756148
Subjects: Common law; Methodology; Law; Interpretation and construction
Description: Kent Greenwalt's second volume on aspects of legal interpretation analyzes statutory and common law interpretation suggesting that multiple factors are important for each, and that the relation between them influences both.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Judges as faithful agents or independent, cooperative actors?; title: The basic core of statutory interpretation : text and intent; title: The place of legislative history, and purpose v. specific meanings; title: What else counts, and should count, for statutory interpretation? executive participation, subsequent legislative history, independent principles of decision, prior judicial interpretation, the passage of time, and legislative direction; title: Administrative interpretation and the complications it reveals; title: Some central questions about common law decisions; title: Precedent : importance and context; title: Reasoning by analogy; title: Other bases for decision : principles and consequential considerations; title: comparisons and conclusions; title: Statutory and common law interpretation.