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 ...

When a private lender fails to respond promptly to a consumer’s claim that it falsely presented the consumer’s borrowing history, Congress established under the Fair Credit Reporting Act that the ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the federal use of National Guard troops highlights how academic legal analysis can play a decisive role at the n ...