Strauss' Legislation: Understanding and Using Statutes

This book's focus makes statutes, and the processes that produce them, the primary consideration. Two of the three principal chapters of this book are organized around the enactment of two particular statutes—one from the late 19th century, the second from the late 20th century. These chapters expose students to primary documents reflecting the quite different processes by which these two statutes were enacted, and invite them to reach conclusions about their meaning, in advance of any exposure to judicial interpretations—just as lawyers would typically be required to do in practice.