At The Conglomerate today, David Zaring, an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Wharton School of Business, posts a table showing which U.S. Supreme Court Justices are/have been the heaviest users of legislative history in determining the meaning of statutory language. The graphic isn’t very good, but you can dope out most of it. The post also contains a link to his paper, co-authored with David Law, Professor of Law and of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.
Calabresi-Easterbrook on Statutory Construction
In Statutory Construction on November 20, 2009 at 3:57 pmWe’re a little late in picking this up, but the Blog of Legal Times reported the “faceoff” between Second Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi and Seventh Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook at the Federalist Society’s annual debate luncheon held a few days ago. Not much new here, but a fair summary of each judge’s position.
Tall Cotton
In Admin on November 20, 2009 at 11:30 amLLB is now officially a high class blawg. We traded in our wordpress.com domain name for a new one that’s all ours: www.legislativelawbulletin.com. Also, you may contact your erstwhile editor at a new e-mail address: editor -at- legislativelawbulletin.com. We now waiting for an offer from Google.
