While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...
Founded in 1852 as the American Law Register, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review is the nation's oldest law review. The Law Review has both a professional and an educational mission. It serves ...
The Court found that the Administration of Justice Act 1920 should be interpreted purposively rather than literally. The English Court of Appeal has considered for the first time whether the ...
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 ...
ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...
[In 1957, Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University gave a lecture at Harvard, subsequently published as "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. J. Rev. 593 (1958). In this talk, ...
In this article, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN) attempts a review of the Supreme Court’s decision in Ude Jones Udeogu v FRN & Ors in the light of the legal implications and pitfalls of same and considers the ...
As we have previously discussed, the Puerto Rico Department of Labor (PR DOL) recently published the first edition of its Guidelines on the Interpretation of Puerto Rico’s Employment Legislation ...
The Statutory Framework and the Problem of Synthetic MinorsIn 2012, the parliament came up with gender-neutral legislation ...
Similarly, Joseph Raz’s theory of authority posits that the law is an authoritative social institution, the de facto authority. However, he also opines that it is essential to law that it be held to ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback