Event Title
Observations About the Use of Legislative History
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
6-3-1987 10:15 AM
End Date
6-3-1987 11:15 AM
Description
One of the workaday tools which federal judges are called upon to employ regularly in their daily labors is the body of materials called "legislative 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.
Related Paper
Kenneth W. Starr, Observations About the Use of Legislative History, 1987 Duke Law Journal 371-379 (1987)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol36/iss3/3Observations About the Use of Legislative History
Duke Law School
One of the workaday tools which federal judges are called upon to employ regularly in their daily labors is the body of materials called "legislative 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.
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