02145cam a22003254a 4500 14794270 BD-DhUL 20160531145615.0 070403s2008 maua b 001 0 eng 2007014164 9780674024601 (alk. paper) 0674024605 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL n-us--- KF425 .E44 2008 348.732 22 ELS Elhauge, Einer. Statutory default rules : how to interpret unclear legislation / Einer Elhauge. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008. vi, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. $ 49.50 Includes bibliographical references and index. Why courts should maximize enactable preferences when statutes are unclear -- The general theory for current preferences default rules -- Inferring current preferences from recent legislative action -- Inferring current preferences from agency action -- From legislative intent to probabilistic estimates of enactable preferences -- Moderation, unforeseen circumstances, and a theory of meaning -- Eliciting legislative preferences -- Canons favoring the politically powerless -- Linguistic canons of statutory construction -- Interpretations that may create international conflict -- Explaining seeming inconsistencies in statutory stare decisis -- Tracking the preferences of political subunits -- Tracking high court preferences -- The fit with prior political science models and empirical data -- Interest groups and collective choice theory -- Protecting reliance or avoiding change or effect -- Rebutting operational and jurisprudential objections. Statutes United States. Law United States Interpretation and construction. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007014164.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK sg09 2007-04-03 sg09 2007-04-03 aa04 2007-04-03 ps14 2008-02-21 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. sg14 2008-06-30 copy 2 added 73787 73787 0 0 ddc 0 348_732000000000000_ELS 0 NFIC 125081 DUL DUL GEN 2012-12-15 Purchased 348.732 ELS 477289 2016-05-31 2016-05-31 BK