Federal Statutory Law

This study aid provides an overview of how legislatures and regulatory agencies are responsible for the vast majority of today's law creation and law implementation. It also covers how courts and agencies should interpret ambiguous statutes.

This study aid describes the life of legislative law after enactment. It describes in detail how agencies, local governments, and businesses use statutes and how citizens, career lobbyists, lawyers, and courts adjust legislative words to fit life’s realities.

Sutherland Statutes and Statutory Construction is the authoritative text for this area of the law. Topics covered include legislative power, legislative organization and procedure, legislative form, legislative applicability, statutory interpretation, and application of the principles of statutory construction in selected areas of substantive law.

This book covers the theory and practice of statutory interpretation by courts. There is a thorough review of the active disputes over the appropriate approaches to statutory interpretations, namely whether courts should rely exclusively on the text or also examine the legislative history.

This title provides an overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation, covering both the theoretical and the practical. It also highlights theories of legislation and representation, electoral and legislative structures, the role of text and precedent in statutory interpretation, substantive canons, legislative history, and agency interpretations.

This text explains the legislative process and describes the difference between bills, acts, statutes, regulations, and guidance documents. It also explores the sources of meaning and the theories of interpretation and introduces the administrative state.

Provides a comprehensive list of abbreviations for legal materials.