Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
Inaugurated November 2002
Introduction
In our continuing series of on-line symposia concerning important issues of legal scholarship, over a dozen recognized scholars in the field of legislation examine the theory of dynamic statutory interpretation developed by William N. Eskridge, Jr. and ultimately published as a book, Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, by Harvard University Press in 1994. Professor Eskridge has contributed an essay responding to praise, criticism, and innovation in dynamism. The contributors and editors all join in the hope that the symposium makes a serious contribution to the ongoing resurgence in scholarship on legislation and statutory interpretation.
- PHILIP FRICKEY
Articles
Hypnotized by Images of the Past: Dynamic Interpretation and the Flawed Majoritarianism of Statutory Law
Bernard Bell
Justifying Dynamism
Robert Bennett
Statutory Interpretation as Diplomacy
James J. Brudney
Earthquakes and Tremors in Statutory Interpretation: An Empirical Study of the Dynamics of Interpretation
Daniel A. Farber
Attention to Context in Statutory Interpretation: Applying the Lessons of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation to Omnibus Legislation
Elizabeth Garrett
Dynamic Interpretation: The Art of Persuasion
Michael E. Libonati
Agency Statutory Interpretation
Jerry L. Mashaw
Textualism's Exceptions
John C. Nagle
The Dynamic Judicial Opinion
William D. Popkin
The Location and Limits of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation in Modern Judicial Reasoning
Stephen F. Ross
Should Criminal Statutes Be Interpreted Dynamically?
Lawrence M. Solan
Dynamic Statutory Interpretation and the Institutional Turn
Adrian Vermeule
The Dynamic Theorization of Statutory Interpretation
William N. Eskridge Jr.