Levin's Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course, 4th
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Description
This book is for instructors of Statutory Interpretation and related courses who want to introduce practical lawyering skills into the doctrinal curriculum. It is also comparatively inexpensive for students. Much like any law school casebook, Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course covers the leading cases; but it also offers much more. For example, it includes:
The fourth edition is thoroughly updated. It integrates Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and the emerging post-Chevron case law, including a lower-court decision resolved first under Chevron and then under the new framework; the major questions doctrine as developed in West Virginia v. EPA and NFIB v. OSHA; and the Court's most recent applications of the textual canons and legislative history, including Fischer v. United States, Snyder v. United States, Lackey v. Stinnie, and Stanley v. City of Sanford. New exercises take up statutory questions raised by the gig economy and by artificial intelligence.
- interpretive exercises to concretize lessons and to help students self-assess their learning;
- a "cold encounter" with a real statute, in which students parse and apply a complex federal law before they have learned any formal interpretive framework;
- lawyers' briefs and case documents to help students understand how cases and arguments are put together;
- case files and brief-writing exercises to teach students to craft arguments based on their doctrinal studies;
- exercises that require students to problem-solve, prompting them to think strategically;
- a mix of heavily-edited, lightly-edited, and unedited cases to help students prepare to work in the real world;
- issues and questions for students to focus on as they read cases and other materials;
- a running case study of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, followed from a student's first encounter with the statute through the courts' efforts to apply it, so students see a single body of law develop across the entire course.
The fourth edition is thoroughly updated. It integrates Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and the emerging post-Chevron case law, including a lower-court decision resolved first under Chevron and then under the new framework; the major questions doctrine as developed in West Virginia v. EPA and NFIB v. OSHA; and the Court's most recent applications of the textual canons and legislative history, including Fischer v. United States, Snyder v. United States, Lackey v. Stinnie, and Stanley v. City of Sanford. New exercises take up statutory questions raised by the gig economy and by artificial intelligence.