Bibframe Work

Why courts should maximize enactable preferences when statutes are unclear

The general theory for current preferences default rules

Inferring current preferences from recent legislative action

Inferring current preferences from agency action

From legislative intent to probabilistic estimates of enactable preferences

Moderation, unforeseen circumstances, and a theory of meaning

Eliciting legislative preferences

Canons favoring the politically powerless

Linguistic canons of statutory construction

Interpretations that may create international conflict

Explaining seeming inconsistencies in statutory stare decisis

Tracking the preferences of political subunits

Tracking high court preferences

The fit with prior political science models and empirical data

Interest groups and collective choice theory

Protecting reliance or avoiding change or effect

Rebutting operational and jurisprudential objections.