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Judging Statutes
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Robert A. Katzmann
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting
Judging Statutes
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Robert A. Katzmann
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Drawing upon his background in law, government and political science, U.S. Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann contends that Congress's work product -
Statutes in Court
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: William D. Popkin
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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A history of the discretion accorded U.S. judges in interpreting legislation (from the Revolution to the present), culminating in the author's own theory of the
Judging Under Uncertainty
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Adrian Vermeule
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this book, Adrian Vermeule shows that any approach to legal interpretation rests on institutional and empirical premises about the capacities of judges and t
Law and Judicial Duty
Language: en
Pages: 712
Authors: Philip Hamburger
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Hamburger traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” The book sheds new light on a host of misunderstood problems, including intent