... scrutinizing,debating, amending, and adopting a
statute.Suchdraftingalso facilitates learnability ofthe law andthe pre-emptoriness
of those legal reasons for determinate action that arise for addressees ... official
– an opinion of an administrative agency creating, developing, or applying
agency adjudicative law
– an opinion of a court interpreting or filling a gap in the law of an...
... have said so far. The overall forms of functional legal
units and the overall form of a legal system as a whole are, as Jhering plainly saw,
of major theoretical and practical importance. Study ... writing this book, namely, that
the study of overall forms of functional legal units and the overall form of a
legal system in its entirety can advance theoretical...
... (5) in constructing all other functional legal units, and (6) in
integrating and coordinating such units within a duly systematized operational
system. Form and the formal in functional legal ... administrative-regulatory, the public-benefit
conferring, and theprivate-arranging – integrate, coordinate, andthus systematize
various types of legal units in differing way...
... what would be a systematic and comprehensive
form- oriented analysis, as schematically and illustratively addressed to a given
functional legal unit of an institutional nature, such as a legislature ... I will also treat the main advantages of this form- oriented approach as
the primary means for advancing understanding of functional legal units and for
according credit to t...
... issues, finding the facts
relevant to the creation of law, securing fair and full debate, affording fair partic-
ipation to the minority party, shaping a deliberative atmosphere, posing mean-
ingful ... unforesee-
ability of all relevant interests at inception, and on the necessary weighing and bal-
ancing of these interests in light of particular facts at point of application, but a...
... completeness, and internal structure, (3) a
formal feature of encapsulation, and (4) a formal expressional feature.
Again, contrary to the form- skeptic and the law-is-policy reductionist, a statu-
tory ... Pursuant to, and within this overall form and these formal criteria, the
parties make various choices of contractual form and complementary content. In
the end, f...
... for a
legal academic to be an advocate of well-designed form and the formal in statutes,
and of well-designed form and the formal in an interpretive methodology, without
somehow embracing, or at ... statutes are ordinary words in ordinary language. The language in all
proposed statutes is in the syntax of ordinary language. Also, the language used in
committee study...
... bearing of the institutional form of the remedy-
granting court, and also of relevant preceptual and methodological form. In most
Anglo-American systems, a judgment against the breaching party ... duly
systematized feature of the legal system comes into being. Law-making and law-
applying institutions and entities operating within the same jurisdictional spheres
are central...
... throughout
Asia. It reached Bangladesh in 1963, India in 1964, and Russia, Iran, and Iraq in
19 65. Cholera struck West Africa in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, major
outbreaks occurred in the Far East ... to
confront and cross-examine prosecuting witnesses at trial.
As the foregoing examples indicate, although the combination, integration,
and coordination of functiona...
... 251 , 2 65
faithfulness of interpretation, 251 , 253 , 255 , 257 ,
259
filling of statutory gaps, 251
formal characterization of, 251
formalistic abuses of, 2 75
general principles and, 263–2 65
generality ... form can be deep and indelible.
section eight: ultra-exceptional stage – trial
and appellate court action
In what would be an ultra-exceptional stage arising in a l...