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A Reevaluation Of The Canons Of Statutory Interpretation, Joseph H. Bates
A Reevaluation Of The Canons Of Statutory Interpretation, Joseph H. Bates
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Symposium has its genesis in the Vanderbilt Law Review's inaugural symposium, A Symposium on Statutory Construction, published in 1950.' Although the 1950 Symposium included a Foreword by Justice Felix Frankfurter and contributions by several preeminent scholars in the field, Karl Llewellyn's clumsily titled but succinctly written Remarks on the Theory of Appellate Decision and the Rules or Canons About How Statutes are to be Construed has eclipsed the Symposium which brought it to light and has persevered as a highly influential, if not definitive, critique of the canons of statutory construction.
Llewelyn's article, in general, attacks legal formalism and …