ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...

Yesterday I laid out two stylized views on interpretation - one that treats it as a simply matter of language (read the statute!), and one that treats it as a matter of judicial policymaking. And I ...

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Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer spoke on the practical challenges of legal interpretation with several legal experts at a Harvard Law School panel hosted by the Harvard Law Review ...

From the public record, it is evident that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has the legal preparation, experience and temperament to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Given the ...

Here's a quotation from Richard Rorty about context, and the last two sentences are instructive for legal interpretation. It is impossible to read a text without a context. Instead of even trying to, ...

Liese Katschinka is a freelance interpreter and translator from Vienna, Austria. She works as both a courtroom and conference interpreter and is the current president of the European Legal ...

KUCHING: Negotiations between the Federal and state governments regarding the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) can be resolved amicably without the need to bring the matter to court for legal ...