Legislation & Statutory Interpretation

• Semester: Fall 2019
• Course ID: 396K
• Credit Hours: 3
• Unique: 28419

Description

The course focuses on the creation of legislation and then the subsequent statutory interpretation. It will discuss how the legislature exercises its power as well as different theories of statutory interpretation. It will look at these issues from constitutional, statutory, and policy points of view Goals of the class include understanding how proposed legislation becomes law, what U.S. Constitutional law provides about the legislative process, understanding how legistures operate, and learning skills about how to handle statutory language in practice - both on how legislatures creat a statuteand subsequently when courts must interpret that statute.