Statutory Interpretation: A Pragmatic Approach
“The inference to the best explanation.” The Philosophical Review 74 (1): 88–95. ... “Salient meanings, default meanings, and automatic processing. ... Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature.
The Supreme Court has expressed an interest 'that Congress be able to legislate against a background of clear interpretative rules, so that it may know the effect of the language...
It is impossible to do anything in law without interpreting the words of others and anticipating how others will interpret or misinterpret one's own words. "Statutory Interpretation," by Ruth Sullivan,...
Nelson's Statutory Interpretation aspires both to train students in the techniques of statutory interpretation and to help students think systematically about those techniques.