how to interpret unclear legislation Elhauge, Einer. creator text bibliography mau Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 2008 monographic eng

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vi, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Einer Elhauge. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Statutes United States Law United States Interpretation and construction KF425 .E44 2008 348.732 ELS 9780674024601 (alk. paper) 0674024605 (alk. paper) 2007014164 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007014164.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007014164.html DLC 070403 20160531145615.0 14794270