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Statutory Textual Context

Statutory Textual Context is a legal interpretive principle that belongs to the genus of statutory construction methodologies, distinguished by its focus on deriving legislative meaning from the immediate textual environment of a statute, including its syntactic structure, neighboring provisions, and definitional sections, without recourse to external legislative history.

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Publications

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Learning our Limits: The Decline of Textualism in Statutory Cases

Lawrence M. Solan · Wisconsin law review · 1997 · 79 citations · Full text

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What Divides Textualists from Purposivists?

John F. Manning · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2006 · 30 citations · Full text

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Statutory Construction and the Coordinating Function of Plain Meaning

Frederick Schauer · The Supreme Court Review · 1990 · 27 citations

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Text, History, and Structure in Statutory Interpretation

Frank H. Easterbrook · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1994 · 22 citations · Full text

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Should We Venerate That Which We Cannot Love? James Madison on Constitutional Imperfection

Jeremy D. Bailey · Political Research Quarterly · 2011 · 19 citations

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Authors

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  1. TB
    Tom Bartlett

    Xiamen University of Technology, China

    1 publications · 10 citations

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    Frederick Schauer

    United States Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  3. JD
    Jeremy D. Bailey

    University of Houston, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. FH
    Frank H. Easterbrook

    University of Chicago, United States

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  5. BF
    Bill Friesen

    University of Toronto, Canada

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  3. Coherent (United States)

    Santa Clara, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  5. Brooklyn Law School

    Brooklyn, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    79 citations

  6. University of Houston

    Houston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

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  1. Surveillance & Society

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  2. Early Medieval Europe

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1 publications · 30 citations

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  4. Discourse & Society

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. eYLS (Yale Law School)

    Repository · 1 publications · 22 citations

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