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Anita Krishnakumar
Professor Anita Krishnakumar presented two papers,”Reconsidering Substantive Canons” and “Textualism and Statutory Stare Decisis” at a Yale Law School “Statutory Interpretation Theory” seminar run by William N. Eskridge on February 9, 2016
Professor Anita Krishnakumar presented her work in progress, Reconsidering Substantive Canons, on Monday, November 9, at Cardozo Law School’s faculty workshop series. The paper discusses the Roberts Court’s use of substantive canons over its first six terms and argues that the empirical evidence suggests that many of scholars’ conventional assumptions about this category of interpretive canons are wrong, or at least overstated.
Anita S. Krishnakumar
Professor Krishnakumar presented her paper, Dueling Canons, at a faculty colloquium at Seton Hall Law School on Tuesday, February 24th. The paper examines, empirically, the extent to which majority and dissenting opinions employ the same canons/tools of statutory construction to reach opposing outcomes in the same cases during the first five terms of the Roberts Court.
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