Use Of Legislative History Research Articles

Indian Trends in the Interpretative Use of Legislative History

Indian Trends in the Interpretative Use of Legislative History

The Contemporary Use of Legislative History in the United Kingdom

The use of legislative history by the courts as an aid to the construction and interpretation of statutory provisions has an extensive common law history. This has encompassed significant variation in judicial approach, perhaps reflecting changing constitutional relationships. Where principles have emerged they have been somewhat inconsistently applied, no doubt because courts have a residual competence to regulate their own procedure which is only loosely regulated by superior courts.

Federal legislative histories: an annotated bibliography and index to officially published sources

Introduction: The Use of Legislative History in Statutory Interpretation Acknowledgments Explanatory Guide and Table Bibliography Author Index Popular Name Index Congressional Session Index Public Law Number Index Bill Number Index Statutes at Large: Record Number Table

The American Legislative Process as a Signal

ABSTRACTThe signals of the American legislative process cannot be understood simply by focusing on the formal and technical processes of legislative drafting. Rather, it is important to appreciate the political and institutional dynamics which affect how and to whom signals are sent, and why some signals emerging from the legislative process are clearer than others. Legislative policymaking often does not conform to the textbook ideal of deliberation and clarity. By the way that legislation is drafted, through the use of legislative history and various materials, legislators send signals to agencies, courts, their colleagues and interest groups. How bills are drafted - tight or loose - gives institutions more or less authority to make policy. Accounting for the sometimes absence of clear direction in legislation in the American system, and the consequences of that absence for agencies and courts, raises questions in a comparative context about how the structure of government affects the signals of the legislative process.

Observations about the Use of Legislative History

One of the workaday tools which federal judges are called upon to employ regularly in their daily labors is the body of materials called history. Like a trusty old teapot, legislative history is readily available whenever the need for it arises. Indeed, in the current era legislative history truly abounds, with library specialists compiling vast tomes designed to aid lawyers and judges in divining the meaning of statutory law. Today, as courts toil under burgeoning case loads, we pause to examine whether (and to what extent) we may be, as it were, drinking too much tea.

Judicial Use of Legislative History and Intent in Statutory Interpretation

Judicial Use of Legislative History and Intent in Statutory Interpretation

A Re-Evaluation of the Use of Legislative History in the Federal Courts

A Re-Evaluation of the Use of Legislative History in the Federal Courts