Legislation & Statutory Interpretation

Course Information

Registration Information

Meeting Times

Day Time Location
TUE, THU 2:15 - 3:30 pm TNH 3.142

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Take-home exam up to 8 hrs (administered by Faculty Coordinator) May 9, 2022

Description

The course focuses on the creation of legislation and then the subsequent statutory interpretation. It will discuss how the legislature exercises its power, what gives legislators their motivations, as well as different theories of 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 create a statute and subsequently when courts must interpret that statute.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Eskridge, Brudney, and Chafetz's Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation, Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy, 6th, 2021 Supplement *
Eskridge Jr., William, Brudney, James, and Chafetz, Josh
West Academic , edition: 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64242-925-1
Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation : Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy *
Eskridge Jr., William N., Brudney, James J., Frickey, Philip P., Garrett, Elizabeth, Frickey, Philip, Eskridge Jr., William, Brudney, James, and Chafetz, Josh
West Academic , edition: 6
ISBN: 978-1-68328-183-2

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