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 ...

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 ...

Digital law is entering a new phase. As smart contracts and AI reshape legal workflows, the real challenge is no longer ...

In the first four months of 2016 three more judgments relating to issues of contractual interpretation of provisions contained in documents of securitisation transactions (all three of them for legacy ...

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, ...

There is a new exception to the new Canadian approach for reviewing the interpretation of contracts: a trial court’s interpretation of a standard form contract may be reviewed on appeal on the ...

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(New York) – The Chinese government’s new official judicial interpretation expanding existing law to punish “online rumors” is a major blow to freedom of expression in China, Human Rights Watch said ...

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thinkstock by Getty Images As if the state’s beleaguered Independent Ethics Commission needed another item on its plate, the five-member board has decided to ...