Statutory Default Rules : : How to Interpret Unclear Legislation / / Einer Elhauge.

• VerfasserIn: Elhauge, Einer,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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...

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