A Statute by Any Other (Non-Acronomial) Name Might Smell Less Like S.P.A.M.,...
“A Statute by Any Other (Non-Acronomial) Name Might Smell Less Like S.P.A.M., or, The Congress of the United States Grows Increasingly D.U.M.B.” Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 08-151 CHRIS...
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View ArticleHow to Use Legislative History to Teach Grammar
Anyone teaching the importance of legislative history in legal research need only point to a single punctuation mark: the mighty comma. As a disclaimer, I strive to put my years of Latin classes to...
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View ArticleAre we teaching what they will use?
Here at Stanford we haven’t shown our students Shepard’s in print in at least a decade. And we have long since stopped using the digests in print as well. So it was good to see these decisions...
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