Justice Elena Kagan seemed most set on that idea, as she explained that “it’s statutory interpretation 101 that we take a defined term, we plug the definition in, and that’s what the meaning of the ...

A lot of writing about legal interpretation (and especially statutory interpretation) seems to assume that interpretation is simply a matter of language ...

“I’m not sure if somebody said to me ‘statutory interpretation’ I would even quite have known what that meant,” Kagan said, referring to her years as a student at the Law School.

Statutory interpretation thus became the subject of my Madison Lecture at New York University School of Law. At the suggestion of Adam Liptak of The New York Times, I expanded the lecture into a book, ...

In her majority opinion, Kagan explains that the “distinctive [statutory] language” on which the Court rested a 2009 ruling on Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act is missing from the ...

We can see this play out in the evolving scope of the word “vehicle.” The “no vehicles in the park” problem seems a mandatory subject for any serious treatment of statutory interpretation.

Thanks to Eugene Volokh for having me back; I’ve missed blogging terribly and am pleased to share a bit of what I’ve been working on in my absence — “The Law of Interpretation ...

And with so many of this Term's corporate questions focused on statutory interpretation — an exercise where all of the Justices espouse textualism — we wouldn't be surprised to see the 2024 ...

Cases applying the doctrine usually present determining the ordinary meaning of a statutory term as the first step—and often the last step—of interpretation.

Analysis Federal Review of an Administrative Agency's Statutory Interpretation Unlike the relatively straightforward de novo standard of review of the legal determinations of a court, judicial ...

News Murky? Connecticut Supreme Court Ruling Raises Questions About Statutory Interpretation "Broadly speaking, I thought Justice Ecker's concerns potentially open the door to a little more ...