Statutory and common law interpretation /
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Oxford [UK] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Judges as faithful agents or independent, cooperative actors?
- The basic core of statutory interpretation : text and intent
- The place of legislative history, and purpose v. specific meanings
- What else counts, and should count, for statutory interpretation? Executive participation, subsequent legislative history, independent principles of decision, prior judicial interpretation, the passage of time, and legislative direction
- Administrative interpretation and the complications it reveals
- Some central questions about common law decisions
- Precedent : importance and context
- Reasoning by analogy
- Other bases for decision : principles and consequential considerations
- comparisons and conclusions. -