Legislation and regulation in a nutshell / Steven F. Huefner.
2017
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Legislation and regulation in a nutshell / Steven F. Huefner.
Imprint
St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2017]
Distributed
[St. Paul, Minnesota] : West Academic Publishing, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 573 pages).
Series
Nutshell series.
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Study aids (West Academic Publishing)
Formatted Contents Note
Chapter 1. Sources and hierarchy of lawmaking authority
Chapter 2. The nature of democratic representation
Chapter 3. Electoral structures, or how American legislatures are populated
Chapter 4. Campaign financing, lobbying, and bribery: the impact of money in politics
Chapter 5. Inside the legislature, or how a bill becomes a law
Chapter 6. Inside the administrative state: the authority and operation of government agencies
Chapter 7. The challenge of textual interpretation
Chapter 8. Theories of statutory interpretation
Chapter 9. Canons of construction and other intrinsic tools of interpretation
Chapter 10. Legislative history and other extrinsic tools of interpretation
Chapter 11. Agency interpretation of legal text
Chapter 12. Judicial review of agency interpretations
Appendix: Representative canons of statutory interpretation.
Chapter 2. The nature of democratic representation
Chapter 3. Electoral structures, or how American legislatures are populated
Chapter 4. Campaign financing, lobbying, and bribery: the impact of money in politics
Chapter 5. Inside the legislature, or how a bill becomes a law
Chapter 6. Inside the administrative state: the authority and operation of government agencies
Chapter 7. The challenge of textual interpretation
Chapter 8. Theories of statutory interpretation
Chapter 9. Canons of construction and other intrinsic tools of interpretation
Chapter 10. Legislative history and other extrinsic tools of interpretation
Chapter 11. Agency interpretation of legal text
Chapter 12. Judicial review of agency interpretations
Appendix: Representative canons of statutory interpretation.
Summary
While traditional American legal education has focused primarily on the judicial branch of government, legislatures and regulatory agencies are responsible for the vast majority of today's law creation and law implementation, in fields from health insurance regulation, to motor vehicle operation, to environmental protection, to the mechanics of voting, to stimulating the economy, to the criminalization of internet piracy, to the distribution of tax burdens, to name only some. Because well-equipped attorneys need a comprehensive grounding in legislative and regulatory processes and the relationships among all three branches of government, many law schools now teach some version of a course in Legislation and Regulation in the first year. This Nutshell addresses all the major topics of these courses, including the central question of how courts and agencies should interpret ambiguous statutes. Part I describes the functioning of modern-day legislatures and administrative agencies, including not only their essential mechanics but also theories of democratic representation. Part II then builds on this foundation to develop the principal theories and doctrines of statutory and regulatory interpretation. It includes detailed discussions of the various "intrinsic" and "extrinsic" interpretive tools, as well as the competing interpretive approaches of Textualism and Purposivism. It also includes a chapter devoted to the Chevron doctrine and the question of how courts should review agency interpretations of statutes.
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Includes index.
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Description based on e-publication title page, viewed April 3, 2017.
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