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Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

by Victoria Nourse (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 22 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 0674971418
ISBN 13: 9780674971417

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Professor Nourse has written a book of comprehensive, devastating criticism of how judges, including Supreme Court Justices, interpret (or pretend to interpret) congressional enactments. The canons of statutory construction, plain meaning, textualism, literalism, originalism--all these crutches fall, felled by her cannons.--Richard A. Posner, author of Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary
Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy is important reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding statutes, and especially so for judges. Their ignorance of/indifference to Congress's processes is an affront both to the means by which most law is created today, and to the democratic values implicit in its emergence from the actions of an elected body.--Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School