LEGISBOOKS Selected books and recent legal articles are listed below. Tell me about materials you think should be included. Extensive bibliographies can also be found at sources under "Legislative Research" on my Legislinks page. SELECTED BOOKS: Reed Dickerson. Legislative Drafting (1954); The Fundamentals of Legal Drafting (2d ed. 1986); Materials on Legal Drafting (1981); The Interpretation and Application of Statutes (1975). Otto J. Hetzel, Michael E. Libonati, and Robert F. Williams. Legislative Law and Statutory Interpretation: Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2001). William N. Eskridge, Jr., Philip P. Frickey, and Elizabeth Garrett. Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (3d ed. 2001). Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela Karlan and Richard Pildes. The Law of Democracy: Legal Structures of the Political Process (1998). Jabez Sutherland. Sutherland Statutory Construction. (Statutes and Statutory Construction, 6th ed. by Norman J. Singer (2000)). (multi-volume) William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey. Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (2d ed.1995 and, with Elizabeth Garrett, separate softcover 1998 Supplement). William N. Eskridge, Jr., Philip P. Frickey, and Elizabeth Garrett. Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (2000). Charles Bernard Nutting and Reed Dickerson. Cases and Materials on Legislation (5th ed. 1978). Abner J. Mikva and Eric Lane. Legislative Process (2d ed. 2002). William N. Eskridge, Jr. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation. (1994). Henry Hart, Jr. and Albert Sacks. The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law. (1994). Jack Stark. The Art of the Statute (1996). Jack Davies. Legislative Law and Process in a Nutshell (2d ed. 1986). Hans A. Linde, George Bunn, Fredericka Paff and W. Lawrence Church. Legislative and Administrative Processes (2d ed. 1981). Horace E. Read, John W. MacDonald, Jefferson B. Fordham, and William J. Pierce. Materials on Legislation (4th ed. 1982). William D. Popkin. Materials on Legislation: Political Language and the Political Process (3d ed. and softcover supplement 2001). G. Alan Tarr. Understanding State Constitutions (1998). Antonin Scalia. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1997). Lawrence E. Filson. The Legislative Drafter's Desk Reference (1992). M.E. Mullins. A Handbook for Legislative Drafters (1986). Edward J. Imwinkelried. Evidentiary Foundations (all editions). Edward R. Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2001 ed.); Envisioning Information (1990); Visual Explanations (1997); Data Analysis for Politics and Policy (1997); The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2003). Dietrich Dorner, Robert Kimber (Translator), Rita Kimber (Translator), Rita Kimer (Translator). The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right (1996). Howard Raiffa. The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982). William Ury and Roger Fisher. Getting to Yes (1981). William Ury. Getting Past No (1991). Eric Redman. The Dance of Legislation (new ed. 2001). Public Affairs Council, Washington D.C. Leveraging State Government Relations (1990). Alan Rosenthal. The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States (1993). William V. Luneburg, ed. The Lobbying Manual: A Compliance Guide for Lawyers and Lobbyists (ABA, 2d ed. 1998). Charles Henning. The Wit and Wisdom of Politics (1989). Leon A. Harris. The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964). RECENT LEGAL ARTICLES: "Law as Craft". 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 2245 (2001). "State Constitutional Law: A Tribute to Lee Hargrave". 62 Louisiana Law Review No. 1 (2001). Symposium with useful articles. "Planning Enabling Legislation in Louisiana: A Prospective Analysis into the Next Millennium". 48 Loyola Law Review 229 (2002). "Representing Representatives: Ethical Considerations for the Legislature’s Attorneys". 6 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 439 (2002-2003). "Interpreting the Separation of Powers in State Constitutions". 59 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 329 (2003). "A Practical Guide to Drafting State Constitutional Provisions." 72 Temple Law Review 1061 (2000). "The Legislative Language Game". 43 JAN Federal Lawyer 39 (1996). "Laying Down the Law: Canons for Drafting Complex Legislation". 72 Oregon Law Review 663 (1993). "State Constitutional Restrictions on Legislative Procedure: Rethinking the Analysis of Original Purpose, Single Subject, and Clear Title Challenges". 38 Harvard Journal on Legislation 103 (2001). "Playing by the Rules: The Need for Constitutions to Define the Boundaries of the Legislative Game with a One-Subject Rule" . 34 UWLA Law Review 731 (2002). "Enforcing Indiana's Constitutional Requirement that Laws be Limited to One Subject" 44 Res Gestae 18 (2001). "Returning the 'One' to Ohio's 'One-Subject' Rule". 28 Capital University Law Review 899 (2000). "The History of the One-Subject Rule of the Ohio Constitution". 45 Cleveland State Law Review 591 (1997). "Missouri's Single-Subject Rule: A Legal Tool to Block Environmental Legislation?". 7 Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review 41 (1999). "One Subject Violation Voids Statute: And Other Recent Developments". 53 Journal of the Missouri Bar 205 (July/August 1997). "The Interplay Between the Gubernatorial Veto and the One-Subject Rule in Oklahoma." 19 Oklahoma City University Law Review 273 (1994). "State Constitutional Limits on Legislative Procedure: Legislative Compliance and Judicial Enforcement". 48 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 797 (1987). "Constitutional law--Appropriation Bills and the Kansas One-Subject Rule--State ex rel. Stephan v. Carlin {631 P.2d 668 (Kan.)}". 30 University of Kansas Law Review 625 (1982). "The Trouble with Robertson: Equal Protection, the Separation of Powers, and the Line Between Statutory Amendment and Statutory Interpretation". 48 Catholic University Law Review 1055 (1999). "Fumo v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission: Are Challenges Based on Alleged Procedural Violations of Constitutional Requirements Related to the Enactment of Legislation Justiciable or Subject To Judicial Self-Restraint Under The Enrolled Bill Doctrine?" 8 Widener Journal of Public Law 763 (1999). "Tipping the Balance of Power: A Critical Survey of the Gubernatorial Line Item Veto". 50 South Carolina Law Review 503 (1999). "Legislative Branch--Substantive Legislation in Appropriations Acts Prohibited--Although the South Dakota Legislature is Free to Impose Conditions and Restrictions on Appropriated Funds Within the Body of a General Appropriations Bill, the South Dakota Legislature is Not Permitted to Substantively Legislate in a General Appropriations Bill in a Manner that Changes, Amends, or Repeals Existing Law. South Dakota Educ. Ass'n v. Barnett, 582 N.W.2d 3". 30 Rutgers Law Journal (1999). "Executive Branch--Item Veto--Whether the Governor May Use His Item Veto Power to Veto a Substantive Provision in an Appropriation Bill is to be Determined by Looking at the Effect of the Veto on the Appropriations and on the Remaining Provisions of the Bill. Management Council of the Wyoming Legislature v. Geringer, 953 P.2d 839 (Wyo. 1998)". 30 Rutgers Law Journal 1465 (1999). "Constitutional Law --Wyoming's Line Item Veto: Allowing the Governor to Legislate? Management Council of the Wyoming Legislature v. Geringer, 953 P.2d 839 (Wyo. 1998)". 34 Land and Water Law Review 451 (1999). "The Structure of Appropriations Legislation and the Governor's Item Veto Power: The Arizona Experience". 36 Arizona Law Review 113 (1994). "Legislative Branch-of Water and Weevils: The Texas Supreme Court Further Restricts the State Legislature's Power to Delegate to Private Entities. FM Properties v. City of Austin". 32 Rutgers Law Journal 1482 (2001). "Separation of Powers and Delegations of Authority to Cancel Statutes in the Line Item Veto Act and the Rules Enabling Act". 68 George Washington Law Review 395 (2000). "The Executive Line Item Veto and the Judicial Power to Sever: What's the Difference?". 56 Washington and Lee Law Review 235 (1999). "Whose Line is it Anyway: How Far Can the Alabama Legislature Go When Prescribing Rules of Evidence, Practice, and Procedure?". 29 Cumberland Law Review 427 (1998-1999). "Severability". 72 North Carolina Law Review 203 (1993). "In the Wake of Schooner Peggy: Deconstructing Legislative Retroactivity Analysis". 69 University of Cincinnati Law Review 453 (2001). "Legislative Retroactivity". 52 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 81 (1997). Retroactivity Symposium: "When Does Retroactivity Cross the Line? Winstar, Eastern Enterprises and Beyond". 51 Alabama Law Review (2000). (various articles of interest) "Hulin v. Fibreboard Corp. – In Pursuit of a Workable Framework for Adjudicative Retroactivity Analysis in Louisiana". 60 Louisiana Law Review 1003 (2000). “Institutional Design and the Lingering Legacy of Antifederalist Separation of Powers Ideals in the States". 52 Vanderbilt Law Review 1167 (1999). "E-legislation: Law-making in the Digital Age". 47 McGill Law Journal 39 (2001) "Legislative Sausage Making or 'I'm Just a Bill' ". 60 Bench & Bar of Minnesota 22 (2003). "Deriving Rules of Statutory Interpretation from the Constitution". 101 Columbia Law Review 1648 (2001). "Legislative Constitutional Interpretation". 50 Duke Law Journal 1335 (2001). "A Message in a Bottle: Text, Autonomy, and Statutory Interpretation". 76 Tulane Law Review 431 (2001). "Overcoming Text in an Age of Textualism: A Practitioner's Guide to Arguing Cases of Statutory Interpretation". 35 Akron Law Review 451 (2002). "Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation". 115 Harvard Law Review 2085 (2002). Symposium on Statutory Interpretation. 53 Southern Methodist University Law Review No. 1 (Winter 2000) (includes appendix bibliography on pages 23-29 of legal articles between 1988-1997). Special Symposium Issue: Congress and the Constitution. 50 Duke Law Journal No. 5 (March 2001) (includes articles on legislative constitutional interpretation and judicial review of congressional factfinding). "Statutory Interpretation: Dipping Into Legislative History". 11 Hofstra Law Review 1125 (1983). (must-read article by Reed Dickerson) "Should Reading Legislative History be an Impeachable Offense?" 31 Suffolk University Law Review 807 (1998). "Statutory Reasoning". 46 Drake Law Review 299 (1997). "The Language of Silence". 48 Rutgers Law Review 1 (1995). "Looking It Up: Dictionaries and Statutory Interpretation". 107 Harvard Law Review 1437 (1994). "The Circumstances of Politics and the Application of Statutes". 100 Columbia Law Review 558 (2000). "Statutes with Multiple Personality Disorders: The Value of Ambiguity in Statutory Design and Interpretation". 54 Stanford Law Review 627 (2002). "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Respecting Legislative Judgments in Interpretive Theory". 78 North Carolina Law Review 1253 (2000). "Legislative Record Review". 54 Stanford Law Review 87 (2001). "Divining Regulatory Intent: The Place for a "Legislative History" of Agency Rules". 51 Hastings Law Journal 255 (2000). "Executive Branch Legal Interpretation: A Perspective from the Office of Legal Counsel". 52 Administrative Law Review 1303 (2000). "Judicial Review of Administrative Policymaking". 44 William and Mary Law Review 375 (2002). "The Judicial Perspective in the Administrative State: Reconciling Modern Doctrines of Deference with the Judiciary's Structural Role". 53 Stanford Law Review 1 (2000). "The Ambiguous Basis of Judicial Deference to Administrative Rules". 17 Yale Journal on Regulation 327 (2000). "Constitutional Avoidance, Resistance Norms, and the Preservation of Judicial Review". 78 Texas Law Review 1549 (2000). "Interpreting Agency Enabling Acts: Misplaced Metaphors in Administrative Law". 41 William and Mary Law Review 1463 (2000). "Legal Philosophy and Judicial Review of Agency Statutory Interpretation". 36 Harvard Journal on Legislation 115 (1999). "The Cycles of Statutory Interpretation". 68 University of Chicago Law Review 149 (2001). "The One-Congress Fiction in Statutory Interpretation". 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 171 (2000). "What Statutory Drafting Errors Teach Us About Statutory Interpretation". 69 George Washington Law Review 309 (2001). "A Theory of Scrivener's Error". 52 Rutgers Law Review 589 (2000). "Legislative Lawyers and the Model Rules". 14 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 823 (2001). "The Texas Supreme Court and Strict Construction". 63 Texas Bar Journal 1042 (December 2000). "The Absurd-Results Principle of Statutory Construction in Texas". 15 Review of Litigation 81(Winter 1996). "A Legislative Miracle: Revival Prosecutions and the Ex Post Facto Clauses". 50 Emory Law Journal 397 (2001). "The Use of Legislative History in a System of Separated Powers" "Putting Legislative History to a Vote: A Response to Professor Siegel" "Timing and Delegation: A Reply", 53 Vanderbilt Law Review No. 5 (2000). "Statutory Interpretation and the Lessons of Llewellyn". 33 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 263(2000). "Democracy in the Details: A Plea for Substance Over Form in Statutory Interpretation". 37 Harvard Journal on Legislation 187 (2000). "Do Theories of Statutory Interpretation Matter? A Case Study". 54 Northwestern University Law Review 1409 (2000). "The Supreme Court's Declining Reliance on Legislative History: The Impact of Justice Scalia's Critique". 36 Harvard Journal on Legislation 369 (1999). "Justifying Legislation: A Pragmatic, Institutionalist Approach to the Memorandum of Law, Legislative Theory, and Practical Reason". 29 Harvard Journal on Legislation 1 (1992). "Things Judges Do: State Statutory Interpretation". 13 Touro Law Review 595 (1997) "How to Read a Statute in New York: A Response to Judge Kaye and Some More". 28 Hofstra Law Review 85 (Fall 1999) "Legislative Entrenchment: a Reappraisal". 111 Yale Law Journal 1665 (2002). "On the Uses of Legislative History in Interpreting Statutes" 65 Southern California Law Review (1992); "Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions" 101 Yale Law Journal (1991); "The New Textualism" 37 UCLA Law Review (1990); "Statutory Interpretation as Practical Reasoning" 42 Stanford Law Review (1990); "The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules" 56 University of Chicago Law Review (1989); "Law and Administration After Chevron" 90 Columbia Law Review (1990); "Interpreting Statutes in the Regulatory State" 103 Harvard Law Review (1989)- The above 7 articles are discussed in the SMU Law Review Symposium on Statutory Interpretation listed above. See "The Influence of a Decade of Statutory Interpretation Scholarship on Judicial Rulings: An Empirical Analysis". An additional resource for informative articles about legislative drafting and statutory interpretation is the Statute Law Review, although its primary focus is upon the laws of Britain and former commonwealth countries. 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