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After Courts: Democratizing Statutory Law

open access: yesMichigan law review
In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton argued for locating interpretive authority over law separately from those institutions tasked with formulating it. Hamilton’s vision, never accurate as a description of American practice, has not been credible for
Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn
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Statutory Law

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2019
K. Asem
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The Pivotal Characterization: Ancient Law as Non-Statutory Law

2017
Scholars of biblical law have long seen the inconsistencies among the law corpora of the Pentateuch as signs of schools and communities in conflict. This chapter offers an introductory foundation for the following five chapters on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law.
exaly   +2 more sources

Comparing maintenance and property rights in marriage under customary law and statutory law in Africa

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2022
Two dominant legal systems operate in a typical post-colonial African state: the indigenous customary law of the African people and the Received Colonial Laws.
S. E. Ojogbo, O. K. Edu
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W(h)ither the Indian Act? How Statutory Law Is Rewriting Canada’s Settler Colonial Formation

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021
This article documents how the Indian Act, the historic legal regime structuring settler colonialism in Canada, is being displaced by new statutory law, as nearly fifty federal statutes passed by successive governments between 2005 and 2020 rewrite First
S. Collis
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State of the States: A survey of statutory law, regulations and court rules pertaining to guilty pleas across the United States.

Behavioral sciences & the law, 2019
A psycholegal research agenda on guilty pleas is in its nascent stage. Multijurisdictional surveys of related law and policy may advance this research agenda by focusing investigators on the specifics of existing policies and motivating cross ...
Tina M. Zottoli   +6 more
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Statutory Nuisance

2002
Abstract This book covers all aspects of the law and practice of statutory nuisance as it operates across the UK. It includes coverage of the governance structure from central to local levels, including the individual nations of the UK post devolution within which statutory nuisance operates, and considers the impact of Brexit.
Rosalind Malcolm, John Pointing
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Improving Sentence Retrieval from Case Law for Statutory Interpretation

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2019
Statutory texts employ vague terms that are difficult to understand. Here we study and evaluate methods for retrieving useful sentences from court opinions that elaborate on the meaning of a vague statutory term.
Jaromir Savelka   +2 more
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An Empirical Study of Statutory Interpretation in Tax Law

Social Science Research Network, 2019
A substantial academic literature considers how agencies should interpret statutes. But few studies have considered how agencies actually do interpret statutes, and none has empirically compared the methodologies of agencies and courts in practice.
Jonathan H. Choi
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The Politics of Privacy in the Criminal Justice System: Information Disclosure, the Fourth Amendment, and Statutory Law Enforcement Exemptions

Michigan law review, 2012
When criminal justice scholars think of privacy, they think of the Fourth Amendment. But lately its domain has become far less absolute. The United States Code currently contains over twenty separate statutes that restrict both the acquisition and ...
E. Murphy
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