Statutory Default Rules : : How to Interpret Unclear Legislation / / Einer Elhauge.
Most new law is statutory law; that is, law enacted by legislators. An important question, therefore, is how should this law be interpreted by courts and agencies, especially when the text of a statute is not entirely clear. There is a great deal of scholarly literature on the rules and legal materi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Overview
- CHAPTER 2 Why Courts Should Maximize Enactable Preferences When Statutes Are Unclear
- PART I Current Preferences Default Rules
- CHAPTER 3 The General Theory for Current Preferences Default Rules
- CHAPTER 4 Inferring Current Preferences from Recent Legislative Action
- CHAPTER 5 Inferring Current Preferences from Agency Action
- PART II Enactor Preferences Default Rules
- CHAPTER 6 From Legislative Intent to Probabilistic Estimates of Enactable Preferences
- CHAPTER 7 Moderation, Unforseen Circumstances, and a Theory of Meaning
- PART III Preference-Eliciting Default Rules
- CHAPTER 8 Eliciting Legislative Preferences
- CHAPTER 9 Canons Favoring the Politically Powerless
- CHAPTER 10 Linguistic Canons of Statutory Construction
- CHAPTER 11 Interpretations That May Create International Conflict
- CHAPTER 12 Explaining Seeming Inconsistencies in Statutory Stare Decisis
- PART IV Supplemental Default Rules
- CHAPTER 13 Tracking the Preferences of Political Subunits
- CHAPTER 14 Tracking High Court Preferences
- PART V Objections
- CHAPTER 15 The Fit with Prior Political Science Models and Empirical Data
- CHAPTER 16 Interest Group and Collective Choice Theory
- CHAPTER 17 Protecting Reliance or Avoiding Change or Effect
- CHAPTER 18 Rebutting Operational and Jurisprudential Objections
- Notes
- Index