A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the federal use of National Guard troops highlights how academic legal analysis can play a decisive role at the n ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the government in a pair of cases brought by noncitizens who are under deportation orders and were in lengthy detention, rejecting lower courts’ ...

The more I delve into statutory interpretation, the more I am confronted from a legislative drafting perspective whether ...

Below, Harvard Law School’s Leif Overvold recaps Tuesday’s oral argument in United States v. O’Brien and Burgess. Leif’s earlier preview of the case is available here. For more information, check the ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

Do the Ene Doctrine and its "reverse-Erie" mirror require state and federal courts to apply one another's statutory interpretation methodologies when they interpret one another's statutes?

Paul is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. With regard to cases involving issues of statutory interpretation, the difference ...

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 ...

When I was still in college, co-conspirator Nick Rosenkranz published a justly famous article called “Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation,” arguing that Congress could and should authorize ...