Dynamic statutory interpretation /

Dynamic statutory interpretation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Eskridge, William N., Jr., 1951-
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c1994.
Description:	ix, 438 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction Law -- Interpretation and construction Law -- Interpretation and construction. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1672696

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ISBN:	0674218787 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Statutory Interpretation Is Worth a Book
I. The Practice of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
1. The Insufficiency of Statutory Archaeology
2. The Dynamics of Statutory Interpretation
3. A Case Study: Labor Injunction Decisions, 1877-1938
II. Jurisprudential Theories for Reading Statutes Dynamically
4. Liberal Theories
5. Legal Process Theories
6. Normativist Theories
III. Doctrinal Implications of Dynamic Statutory Jurisprudence
7. Legislative History Values
8. Vertical versus Horizontal Coherence
9. Canons of Statutory Construction as Interpretive Regimes
Appendix 1. The Primary Legislative Inaction Precedents, 1962-1992
Appendix 2. Supreme Court Decisions Overruling Statutory Precedents, 1962-1992
Appendix 3. The Rehnquist Court's Canons of Statutory Construction
Notes
Index