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Judging Statutes

Robert A. Katzmann

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them. But many laws feature ambiguous or even contradictory wording. How, then, should judges divine their meaning? Should they stick only t...

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Strict Scrutiny

This book was mentioned as a terrific overview of a pragmatic approach to statutory interpretation. It was recommended as a short and great teaching aid for listeners.

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I'm curious now having read a lot of his scholarly work and opinions in statutory cases what the process if anybody wants to comment on it sort of what you learned about interpreting statutes from the...

— Episode: Presto!

Episode: Presto!

This book was mentioned as a terrific overview of a pragmatic approach to statutory interpretation. It was recommended as a short and great teaching aid for listeners.

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I'm curious now having read a lot of his scholarly work and opinions in statutory cases what the process if anybody wants to comment on it sort of what you learned about interpreting statutes from the judge or sort of how he approached statutory cases when you were in his chambers.

It's short I like to teach from it so I think it's a great teaching aid but I also think it's just a wonderful overview of kind of a pragmatic approach to statutory interpretation right I would call it purposivism but it's not particularly interested in labels right it's interested in kind of doing the hard work to figure out sort of you know what a statute is trying to accomplish.

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