Statutory Interpretation - Harvard Law Review

State and Local Government Law Recent Legislation

A.B. 1766, 2021-2022 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Cal. 2022) (enacted)

California Makes ID Cards Available to Undocumented Residents.

Vol. 136 No. 7 May 2023

Major Questions Doctrine Recent Case

Georgia v. President of the United States

Eleventh Circuit Applies the Major Questions Doctrine to a Delegation to the President.

Vol. 136 No. 7 May 2023

Natural Law Note

Justice Breyer: The Court’s Last Natural Lawyer?

Vol. 136 No. 5 March 2023 Natural law “still spooks many constitutional lawyers.” Justice Scalia, for example, was once asked: “Does natural law have a place in interpreting the Constitution?”...

Statutory Interpretation Article

The Common Law as Statutory Backdrop

Vol. 136 No. 2 December 2022 This Article provides the first empirical and doctrinal analysis of how the modern Supreme Court uses the common law to determine statutory meaning, based on a study of 602 statutory cases decided during the Roberts Court’s first fourteen and a half Terms.

Anita S. Krishnakumar

Criminal Justice Leading Case

Wooden v. United States

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes lengthy sentences on those who possess firearms after committing violent felonies on three or more different “occasions.”...

Administrative Law Leading Case

American Hospital Ass’n v. Becerra

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 Scholars have described the Supreme Court’s 1984 decision Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. as an “accidental landmark,” “the most important...

Federal Indian Law Leading Case

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 It is hornbook law that “standard principles of statutory interpretation do not have their usual force in cases involving Indian law.” The Indian canons...

Constitutional Remedies Recent Case

Lindenbaum v. Realgy, LLC

Sixth Circuit Holds that Severed Provisions Cannot be Applied to Violations Predating Severance

Vol. 135 No. 7 May 2022

Criminal Law Recent Case

United States v. Pangang Group Co.

Ninth Circuit Holds that Certain Chinese State-Owned Companies Are Not Foreign "Instrumentalities" and Thus Lack Immunity Under the FSIA from Criminal Prosecution

Vol. 135 No. 6 April 2022

Habeas Corpus Note

A Textual Argument for Challenging Conditions of Confinement Under Habeas

Vol. 135 No. 5 March 2022 As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread through prisons, jails, and other detention facilities in the United States, it has brought new attention to a...