The Right Coast

October 23, 2003
 
Statutory Intrepretation
By Tom Smith

I confess I often don't like scholarly presentations by law professors. Many of them strike me as having been done only because everybody likes to feel productive. But today's by Einer Elhauge on statutory interpretation was really very good. His article is at 102 Columbia Law Review 2027. As my cell phone rang in the middle of my asking him a really deep question (it was my wife saying she could not get the oven to work), I must go, but let me just commend it as a really careful and serious grappling with various jurisprudential issues of statutory interpretation, as well as a careful avoidance of others.