Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
The principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advocates and judges to utilize the insights of three discrete disciplines apart from law: communications and linguistics to understand the way that legislative drafters use words to communicate to others, either in text or in extratextual legislative material; political science to describe the way that legislators behave in enacting statutes; and political theory to provide a normative guide for courts interpreting statutes in a constitutional democracy.
Recommended Citation
Stephen F. Ross, Statutory Interpretation as a Parasitic Endeavor, 44 San Diego L. Rev. 1027 (2007).