When I was still in college, co-conspirator Nick Rosenkranz published a justly famous article called “Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation,” arguing that Congress could and should authorize ...

On Friday, May 19, 2017, a federal appellate court struck down an integral part of the FAA’s attempt to safely monitor and integrate small unmanned aerial systems (“sUAS”) into the national airspace.

On Friday, June 20th, the Supreme Court in McLaughlin Chiropractic Assoc., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226 (U.S. June 2025), ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Hobbs Act does not bind federal ...

While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

One puzzlement about statutory interpretation is that so many statutory canons run contrary to likely legislative preferences, sound policy, or even the judicial self-interest in avoiding being ...