While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

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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 ...

"Appellate judges spend virtually every working hour speaking, listening to, reading, or writing English prose. Statutes are written in English prose, and interpretation is not a technical exercise to ...