{"product_id":"statutory-default-rules-9780674024601","title":"Statutory Default Rules","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost new law is statutory law; that is, law enacted by legislators. An important question, therefore, is how should this law be interpreted by courts and agencies, especially when the text of a statute is not entirely clear. This book focuses on what judges should do once the legal materials fail to resolve the interpretive question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStatutory Default Rules\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the debate over legal interpretation. It rehabilitates the imaginative-reconstruction approach of Learned Hand and gives it new intellectual foundations, including a sophisticated appreciation of relevant social science. -- Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School\u003cbr\u003eAn important contribution to the field, cogently written and well-organized, it will spark lively discussion in a domain of legal scholarship that could certainly use it. -- Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Stanford Law School\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a masterpiece which I will be using in my own work (hopefully) for decades to come! -- Jonathan Macey, Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction and Overview   2. Why Courts Should Maximize Enactable Preferences when Statutes Are Unclear    Part I. Current Preferences Default Rules   3. The General Theory for Current Preferences Default Rules   4. Inferring Current Preferences from Recent Legislative Action   5. Inferring Current Preferences from Agency Action    Part II. Enactor Preferences Default Rules   6. From Legislative Intent to Probabilistic Estimates of Enactable Preferences   7. Moderation, Changed or Uncontemplated Circumstances, and a Theory of Meaning    Part III. Preference-Eliciting Default Rules   8. Eliciting Legislative Preferences   9. Canons Favoring the Politically Powerless   10. Linguistic Canons of Statutory Construction   11. Interpretations that May Create International Conflict   12. Explaining Seeming Inconsistencies in Statutory Stare Decisis    Part IV. Supplemental Default Rules   13. Tracking the Preferences of Political Subunits   14. Tracking High Court Preferences    Part V. Objections   15. The Fit with Prior Political Science Models and Empirical Data   16. The Critiques of Politics by Interest Group Theory and Collective Choice Theory   17. Alternative Default Rules that Protect Reliance or Avoid Change or Effect   18. Rebutting Operational and Jurisprudential Objections    Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359089197399,"sku":"9780674024601","price":60.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674024601.jpg?v=1754123543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/statutory-default-rules-9780674024601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}