Keyword

statutory language

Description: The wording and linguistic features of statutes, studied in law, legal interpretation, and linguistics to understand how legislation communicates rules.

Primary topic: Legal Language and Interpretation (48%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/statutory-language

Interpreting Statutes: A Comparative Study

1993 · Edward Rubin, D. Neil MacCormick, et al. · The American Journal of Comparative Law · 203

Les langages juridiques : une typologie

1988 · Jerzy Wroblewski · Droit et société · 74

Construction Of Statutes

2014 · J. Peters · American Legal Encyclopedia · 64

What Statutes Mean: Interpretive Lessons from Positive Theories of Communication and Legislation

2007 · Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, et al. · Digital USD (University of San Diego) · 56

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Constitutional deliberation in Congress: the impact of judicial review in a separated system

2005 · Choice Reviews Online · 50

Work Choices and the Radical Revision of the Public Realm of Australian Statutory Labour Law

2006 · Jill Murray · Industrial Law Journal · 48

Clarity and Word Order in Legislation

1985 · DENNIS KURZON · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · 47

The Language of Statutes

2010 · Lawrence M. Solan · University of Chicago Press eBooks · 46

Transitioning pharmacy to “standard of care” regulation: Analyzing how pharmacy regulates relative to medicine and nursing

2018 · Alex J. Adams · Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy · 42

Statutory Interpretation - an Introduction for Students

1997 · C.J. Botha · 34

Bureaucrats as Lawmakers

2020 · Mary A. Kroeger · Legislative Studies Quarterly · 33

The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

2001 · Yonglin Jiang, Karen G. Turner, et al. · The Journal of Asian Studies · 32

Universal Access to a Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification

2009 · Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin G. Welner, et al. · Issue Lab (Candid) · 31

Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People

2000 · Paisley Currah, Shannon Price Minter · The William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository (William & Mary) · 30

Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Supremacy

1989 · Daniel A. Farber · bepress Legal Repository · 29

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Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation

1994 · Mathew D. McCubbins, Roger G. Noll, et al. · Duke Law Scholarship Repository (Duke University) · 23

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Primer on State Statutory Mandates of Third-Party Orthodontic Coverage for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Care in the United States

2017 · Kristin D. Pfeifauf, Alison Snyder-Warwick, et al. · The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal · 22

Legislatures, Courts, and Statutory Control of the Bureaucracy across the U.S. States

2013 · Robert J. McGrath · State Politics & Policy Quarterly · 22

Plain Language in Legislative Drafting: Is it Really the Answer?

2002 · B. Hunt · Statute Law Review · 22

Fixing Statutory Interpretation

2016 · Brett M. Kavanaugh · Harvard Law Review · 21

Stroud's judicial dictionary of words and phrases

1979 · Frederick Stroud, Daniel Greenberg · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 20

The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform

2010 · Samuelson, Pamela · bepress Legal Repository · 19

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The American Psychiatric Association's Resource Document on Mental Retardation and Capital Sentencing: implementing Atkins v. Virginia.

2004 · Richard J Bonnie · PubMed · 18

Legislative Regulation. A Study of the Ways and Means of Written Law

1933 · Joseph P. Chamberlain, Ernst Freund · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 18

Open Texture in Athenian Law

2013 · Edward M. Harris · Oxford University Press eBooks · 15

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Citation count: 1,604