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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 348.7322 EAN: 9780314233301 Edition: 3 ISBN: 031423330X Label: West Publishing Company Manufacturer: West Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1032 Publication Date: May 15, 2001 Publisher: West Publishing Company Studio: West Publishing Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Contains an introduction to legislation; descriptive and normative theories of legislation, including procedural theories of legislation, pluralism and interest groups, and institutional theories of legislation; Title VII: interpretive issues and political theories, the Supreme Court's decision in Griggs, affirmative action United States Steelworkers of America v. Weber and Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County; legislative drafting; representational structures, structures of legislative deliberation; statutes as a source of public policy in the United States; theories of statutory interpretation; doctrines of statutory interpretation; and the implementation of statutes. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - everyone in my class hates this book - including the professorThis book is universally reviled by nearly all the 1Ls at my school (where Legislation is taught to first years). It's extremely long, boring, HUGE, and very difficult to get through, especially when you have to read large chunks at a time for class each week. There's comparatively few cases. The authors say in twenty words what they could easily express in two, and unless you REALLY need to know that senator Clair Engle was suffering a brain tumor when he voted for cloture during the passage of ... Read More Rating:  - a laugh riotThis book was an utter delight to read -- I keep it on my bedside table, and give myself the treat of a chapter each night. You wouldn't think that a book on legislation could have that impact, but Eskridge makes the topic fun and riveting, at once. |
