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Cu Law Library Launches New Resource For Historical Colorado Statutory Research, Robert M. Linz

Publications

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Intentionalism Justice Scalia Could Love, Hillel Y. Levin

Scholarly Works

Book review of The Nature of Legislative Intent by Richard Ekins (Oxford 2012).

Making Sausage: What, Why And How To Teach About Legislative Process In A Legislation Or Leg-Reg Course, Deborah A. Widiss

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Although a rapidly growing number of law schools require students to take a course on legislation, many of these courses teach very little about how laws are actually enacted. This essay, written for a special issue of the Journal of Legal Education, argues that study of the legislative process helps students interpret and apply statutory language.

The essay surveys existing text books and supplemental resources that could be easily integrated into a Leg-Reg or Legislation class to explain modern Congressional procedure. The focus is the multiple distinct paths that bills may take through a legislative body and the written …