LAW SCHOOL FOR EVERYONE LEGISLATION AND REGULATION BY PROFESSOR PETER J.SMITH

LAW SCHOOL FOR EVERYONE LEGISLATION AND REGULATION BY PROFESSOR PETER J.SMITH
Posted date: 04/11/2026

"In law school, a course on legislation and regulation is about the rules that govern the enactment, interpretation, and implementation of statutes. Such a course is different from other first-year courses in law school. Most of the other courses taught in the first year of law school—on torts, property, and contracts, for example—are common-law subjects. Under the common law, courts devise rules to resolve the cases presented to them, and they write careful opinions to explain the rules and justify the conclusions that they reach. 

However, the main texts in a course on legislation and regulation are statutes enacted by legislatures and regulations issued by agencies. Whereas judicial opinions announce rules and reasons, statutes and regulations tend to announce just rules. If judicial opinions are novels, then statutes are poems: They are brief, yet packed with meaning. A course on legislation and regulation is in large part about how to discern that meaning."

 

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