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Statutory Interpretation

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ISBN-10: 1599417707

ISBN-13: 9781599417707

Edition: 2011

Authors: Caleb Nelson

List price: $245.00
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This book is designed for 3-, 4-, or 5-credit courses about the general discipline of statutory interpretation. With extensive notes and lightly edited cases drawn from a variety of substantive fields, the book aspires both (1) to familiarize students with interpretive techniques commonly used by lawyers and judges and (2) to help students think rigorously and systematically about those techniques. Topics covered include: the interplay between purpose and text the canons debates over the use of legislative history the background supplied by other statutes, judicial decisions, and the common law Chevron deference the preemption of state law by federal statutes.
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Book details

List price: $245.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: West Academic
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1065
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.180
Language: English

Caleb Nelson holds a BA in English and lives in Utah with his fabulous wife Chelsea, and three great children. When he isn't writing political treatises, he's probably playing with his kids, exploring Utah's wilderness, inciting hilarity with witty ripostes, or pwning noobs on Xbox live. Caleb enjoys singing and acting in plays, among which have been Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and My Fair Lady. Caleb is an avid reader, consuming the likes of Robert Jordan, Ayn Rand, and Frank Herbert. Caleb's mix of reserve and razor-edged precision with words and concepts tends to be off-putting to irra-tional thinkers who don't know him. But it is that clarity of cognition which makes him a…