The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Judging Statutes (Oxford University Press), by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of ...

With the new Trump administration, immigration has been in the national news. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have emphasized that the U.S. government will target “criminal ...

Today’s 8-1 ruling in Badgerow v. Walters on an arcane issue under the Federal Arbitration Act displays a sharp divide between the textualism of Justice Kagan’s majority opinion and the ...

Judges sometimes make reference to the temporal aspects of interpretation and insist that they are seeking the meaning of the text at the time it was drafted. Yet in practice, judges often ignore the ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

An analysis of the conflict that exists between the Amended Guaranty Law's explicit statutory language and the City Council's newly published declaration of legislative intent and findings. The ...