This law school outline is for a course on Legislative Law, which examines issues relating to the enactment, application and interpretation of legislation, primarily at the federal level.

The course introduced students to the basic contours of:

• Congressional lawmaking practice

• theoretical models of the legislative process

• the application and interpretation of statutes by the executive branch

• numerous aspects of judicial statutory interpretation.

Students will explored and critiqued the different methods and canons that courts apply in construing statutes and consider issues such as the appropriate degree of deference to administrative interpretations, judicial use of legislative history in construction, and interaction between the courts and Congress.