Download This PaperStatutory Interpretation as a Parasitic Endeavor
26 Pages Posted: 14 Feb 2016
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
The principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advocates and judges to utilize the insights of three discrete disciplines apart from law: communications and linguistics to understand the way that legislative drafters use words to communicate to others, either in text or in extratextual legislative material; political science to describe the way that legislators behave in enacting statutes; and political theory to provide a normative guide for courts interpreting statutes in a constitutional democracy.
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Ross, Stephen F., Statutory Interpretation as a Parasitic Endeavor (2007). San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1027, 2007, Penn State Law Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2731859
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