While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

Below, Harvard Law School’s Leif Overvold recaps Tuesday’s oral argument in United States v. O’Brien and Burgess. Leif’s earlier preview of the case is available here. For more information, check the ...

In a classic case of statutory interpretation, in which every technical thrust seemed to be met by an equally adept technical parry, Lockhart v. United States ended in a result readily understandable ...

Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the real “bad old days” at the Supreme Court were ...

Paul is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. With regard to cases involving issues of statutory interpretation, the difference ...

Do the Ene Doctrine and its "reverse-Erie" mirror require state and federal courts to apply one another's statutory interpretation methodologies when they interpret one another's statutes?

An analysis of the conflict that exists between the Amended Guaranty Law's explicit statutory language and the City Council's newly published declaration of legislative intent and findings. The ...

When I was still in college, co-conspirator Nick Rosenkranz published a justly famous article called “Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation,” arguing that Congress could and should authorize ...