Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.

Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
Written By: Abner J. Mikva, Eric Lane

Statute reading can prompt more questions than answers largely because statutes often suffer from ambiguities, inconsistencies, or complete gaps in meaning. Statutory Interpretation: The Search for Legislative Intent is the first book to provide judges, lawyers, and law students with a handy source to find the proper methods and tools of statutory interpretation. This concise 4-x-6-inch ...

Manufacturer: National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Written By: Ronald Benton Brown, Sharon Jacobs Brown

Manufacturer: Fred B Rothman & Co
Written By: Alan L. Dworsky

The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusets is the first compilation of laws and constitutional rights printed in English America. Six hundred copies were produced in 1648 and most were given free of charge to magistrates and deputies who sat in the court. When a documentary collection of seventeenth-century Massachusetts laws was published in ...

Manufacturer: Huntington Library Press

Manufacturer: Philippine Bar Association
Written By: Warren E Burger

Contains an introduction to legislation; descriptive and normative theories of legislation, including procedural theories of legislation, pluralism and interest groups, and institutional theories of legislation; Title VII: interpretive issues and political theories, the Supreme Court's decision in Griggs, affirmative action United States Steelworkers of America v. Weber and ...

Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
Written By: William N., Jr. Eskridge, Philip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett

Kermit L. Hall, Dean of the College of Humanities, Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, and Professor of History and Law at Ohio State University, is well versed in American constitutional and legal history, and has a skillful touch when it comes to editing the contributions of well over 100 legal scholars (from attorneys and state supreme court justices to professors of law, ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA

Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies. It does so, first of all, because it involves richer authoritative texts than does either common law or ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: William N., Jr. Eskridge

Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr

An exceptional and compelling map to the rewards and excitement of exploring the unknown with God.

Manufacturer: Kregel Publications
Written By: Susan Scott Sutton