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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Judicial Interpretation vs. Legislation
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- In article <1993Jan23.050844.17179@IRO.UMontreal.CA> simon@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca (Daniel Simon) writes:
- >I would be delighted to be proven wrong, of course; if Mr. Frank
- >or anyone else can cite expressions of mainstream legal opinon
- >explicitly opposing one or another seriously suggested approach to
- >constitutional interpretation as being overly "liberal" (that is, as
- >overstepping the line between "interpretation" and "legisation"), then
- >I would be at least somewhat comforted.
-
- Leaving aside Justice Scalia's recent attempts to formulate a jurisprudence
- of interpretation:
-
- Ronald Dworkin's book, "Law's Empire." (also, parts of "A Matter of
- Principle.")
- Judge Richard Posner's books, "The Problems of Jurisprudence" and "The Federal
- Courts."
- Hart & Sacks, "The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application
- of Law."
- Justice Frankfurter, "Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes," 47 Colum L
- Rev 527 (1947).
- Judge Frank Easterbrook, "Statutes' Domains," 50 U Chi L Rev 533 (1983).
- Bruce Ackerman, "The Storrs Lectures: Discovering the Constitution," 93 Yale
- L J 1013 (1984).
- William Eskridge, "Dynamic Statutory Interpretation," 135 U Pa L Rev 1479
- (1987).
- Paul Brest, "The Misconceived Quest for the Original Understanding," 60 BU L
- Rev 204 (1980).
- Blatt, "The History of Statutory Interpretation: A Study in Form & Substance,"
- 6 Cardozo L Rev 799 (1985).
- Radin, "Statutory Interpretation," 43 Harv L Rev 863 (1930).
- Hutchinson & Morgan, "The Semiology of Statutes," 21 Harv J Legis 583 (1984).
-
- A good case on the issue is United States v Locke, 471 US 84 (1985).
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