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Putting Legislative History To A Vote: A Response To Professor Siegel, John F. Manning Oct 2000

Putting Legislative History To A Vote: A Response To Professor Siegel, John F. Manning

Vanderbilt Law Review

In a previous article, I argued that, properly understood, textualism implements a special form of the nondelegation doctrine, one that prohibits legislative self-delegation.' If the judiciary accepts certain types of legislative history (committee reports and sponsors' statements) as "authoritative" evidence of legislative in- tent in cases of ambiguity, then the particular legislators who write that history (the committees and sponsors) effectively settle statutory meaning for Congress as a whole. Against the background of such a judicially fashioned interpretive practice, when Congress passes a vague or ambiguous statute, it thereby implicitly delegates its law-elaboration authority to legislative agents, who effectively fashion …


The Role Of The Law Review In The Tradition Of Judicial Scholarship, Kenneth F. Ripple Jan 2000

The Role Of The Law Review In The Tradition Of Judicial Scholarship, Kenneth F. Ripple

Journal Articles

This article explores one of the most important sources of judicial education, the law review. Part I first examines, by way of introduction, why continued intellectual growth is so important to the American jurist of today. It then sets forth the growth of the law review as an institution within the legal profession. Part II examines the various roles that law reviews play traditionally in the intellectual life of a judge and suggests, with respect to each, certain improvements in the judge-law review relationship designed both to enhance the effectiveness of the law review as an intellectual companion and to …


The International Symposium On Derivatives And Risk Management, Carl Felsenfeld, Alan N. Rechtschaffen, Carolyn H. Jackson, Ruth W. Ainslie, Michael N. Brosnan, Darcy Bradbury, Denis M. Forster, Martin Bienenstock, David A.P. Brower, Aaron Rubinstein, David Morris, Eric Seiler, Peter D. Morgenstern, Michael J. Malone, John Lovi, Alvin K. Hellerstein, Charles E. Ramos Jan 2000

The International Symposium On Derivatives And Risk Management, Carl Felsenfeld, Alan N. Rechtschaffen, Carolyn H. Jackson, Ruth W. Ainslie, Michael N. Brosnan, Darcy Bradbury, Denis M. Forster, Martin Bienenstock, David A.P. Brower, Aaron Rubinstein, David Morris, Eric Seiler, Peter D. Morgenstern, Michael J. Malone, John Lovi, Alvin K. Hellerstein, Charles E. Ramos

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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