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Pages: 332
Authors: Guido Calabresi
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to cons
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Language: en
Pages:
Authors: David M Wright
Categories: Common law
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This topical book provides an insightful analysis of the increasing prominance of the statute in AustraliaoÂeÂ(tm)s inherited common law system. It examines t
Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: William N. Eskridge
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge a
Thinking about Statutes
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Andrew Burrows
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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We are in the age of statutes; and it is indisputable that statutes are swallowing up the common law. Yet the study of statutes as a coherent whole is rare. In
A Concise History of the Common Law
Language: en
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Authors: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Categories: Common law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.