Elements of Legislation

Neil Duxbury
Cambridge University Press, 11/1/2012
EAN 9781107021877, ISBN10: 1107021871

Hardcover, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

In Elements of Legislation, Neil Duxbury examines the history of English law through the lens of legal philosophy in an effort to draw out the differences between judge-made and enacted law and to explain what courts do with the laws that legislatures enact. He presents a series of rigorously researched and carefully rehearsed arguments concerning the law-making functions of legislatures and courts, the concepts of legislative supremacy and judicial review, the nature of legislative intent and the core principles of statutory interpretation.

1. Introduction
2. The supremacy problem
3. The quest to intellectualize statute law
4. Legislatures and intentions
5. Fidelity to text
6. Purposivism, past and present.