Title: Statutes in Court
Subtitle: The History and Theory of Statutory Interpretation
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.
Subjects: Judicial discretion, Law, Interpretation and construction, History, Law, united states, Law, interpretation and construction