The interpretation of statutes is so often decisive in cases of national importance, which touch all our lives. Specifically, I want to talk with you about how courts are relinquishing the power to ...

While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...

Eight justices sided with Wescley Fonseca Pereira in his argument that a government-issued document notifying him of the government’s intention to initiate removal proceedings against him did not stop ...

Unlike the relatively straightforward de novo standard of review of the legal determinations of a court, judicial review of an administrative agency's legal determinations is more complex, especially ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a ...

INTERPRETING what someone else has written is no mean job especially when the writer and the interpreter have no common meeting point but that is exactly what law courts do every day. Justices, judges ...

The Modern Law Review is a general, peer-refereed journal that publishes original articles relating to common law jurisdictions and, increasingly, to the law of the European Union. In addition to ...