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Secondary & Practice Guides: Statutory Construction & Interpretation

This guide includes the Library's most current, updated secondary and practice guides.
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Statutory Construction & Interpretation

A dictionary of statutory interpretation. William D. Popkin. (Carolina Academic Press, c2007)  KF 425 .P669 2007

The language of statutes: laws and their interpretation. Lawrence M. Solan. (University of Chicago Press, 2010)  K 290 .S65 2010

Legislative drafter’s desk reference, 2nd ed. Lawrence E. Filson and Sandra L. Strokoff. (CQ Press, 2008)  KF 4950 .F55 2008

Modern statutory interpretation: problems, theories, and lawyering strategies, 2nd ed. Linda D. Jellum, David Charles Hricik. (Carolina Academic Press, 2000)  KF 425 .J45 2009

Statutes and statutory construction (Sutherland statutory construction), 7th ed. Norman J. Singer and J.D. Shambie Singer. (Thomson/West, 2007- )  KF 425 .S56 2007 & Westlaw subscription database (ID/password required)*

Statutes in court: the history and theory of statutory interpretation. William D. Popkin. (Duke University Press, 1999)  KF 425 .P67 1999

Statutory interpretation: pragmatics and argumentationDouglas Walton, et al. (Cambridge Univ. Press, c2021) K 290 .W35 2021

Statutory interpretation in the federal and state courtsLinda Jellum. Lexis subscription database (ID/password required)*

The theory and practice of statutory interpretation. Frank B. Cross. (Stanford Law Books, c2009)  KF 425 .C76 2009