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Law -- Interpretation and construction.

Here are entered works on the interpretation of statutes and other laws. Works on the legislative process are entered under Legislation. Works on legislative enactments as a source of law, as distinct from constitutional law or from the law arising from judicial or administrative decisions are entered under Statutes. General works on law or legal systems as well as collections of statutes not limited to a specific topic are entered under Law with local subdivision, as appropriate.

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• Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Gregory Leyh (HTML at UC Press)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• La Loi Territoriale et les Traités Diplomatiques Devant les Juridictions des États Contractants: Essai sur l'I̕nterprétation des Traités (doctoral thesis in French; Paris: E. Pichon et Durand-Auzias, 1910), by Auguste Prudhomme
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• British Statutes in American Law, 1776-1836 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1964), by Elizabeth Gaspar Brown, contrib. by William Wirt Blume and Allan F. Smith (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Ronen Shamir (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method (Hamlyn Lectures, #55; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by M. D. Kirby (PDF in the UK)
• The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1921), by Benjamin N. Cardozo (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Human Jurisprudence: Public Law as Political Science (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1975), by Glendon A. Schubert, contrib. by David Joseph Danelski (multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii)

• Law's Anthropology: From Ethnography to Expert Testimony in Native Title (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2011), by Paul Burke (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)

• Common Law Judging: Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Douglas E. Edlin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Lehre vom Beweis im Strafprozess (in German; Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1883), by Julius Glaser
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Beiträge zur Lehre vom Beweis im Strafprozess (in German; Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1883), by Julius Glaser
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wesen und Subjektive Begrenzung der Rechtskraft: Eine Prozessuale Abhandlung mit Beiträgen zum Bürgerlichen Recht, Insbesondere zur Lehre von der Rechtsnachfolge und der Verfügungsmacht der Nichtberechtigten (in German; Leipzig, A. Deichert, 1901), by Konrad Hellwig
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640, by Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper (illustrated HTML at British History Online)

• The London Eyre of 1244, ed. by Helena M. Chew and Martin Weinbaum (HTML at British History Online)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Human Jurisprudence: Public Law as Political Science (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1975), by Glendon A. Schubert, contrib. by David Joseph Danelski (multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii)

• Human Jurisprudence: Public Law as Political Science (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1975), by Glendon A. Schubert, contrib. by David Joseph Danelski (multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii)
• The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1921), by Benjamin N. Cardozo (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Evidence: Impeachment by Evidence of a Criminal Conviction (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2013), by Colin Miller (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
• Federal Rules of Evidence, by United States
  • PDF at uscourts.gov
  • HTML at Cornell

• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)
• A Review of the Department of Energy Classification Policy and Practice (1995), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)

• With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2014), by G. Alex Sinha (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Fiber Evidence and the Wayne Williams Trial (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1984), by Harold A. Deadman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)
• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in US Criminal Cases (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2018), by Sarah St. Vincent (HTML and PDF at hrw.org)

• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (second edition, 2002), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at cybercrime.gov)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (third edition; Washington: National Academies Press, 2011), by Federal Judicial Center and National Research Council Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (page images at NAP)
• Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Foreign Law Bans: Legal Uncertainties and Practical Problems (Washington: Center for American Progress; New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2013), by Faiza Patel, Matthew Duss, and Amos Toh (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Evidence: Impeachment by Evidence of a Criminal Conviction (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2013), by Colin Miller (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)

• Evidence: Impeachment by Evidence of a Criminal Conviction (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2013), by Colin Miller (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)

• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students (translated from the fourth German edition), by Hans Gross, trans. by Horace Meyer Kallen, contrib. by Joseph Jastrow (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime, by Hugo Münsterberg (HTML at York)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.