KARL LLEWELLYN'S DUELING CANONS IN PERSPECTIVE Book Format (Please Select):EBOOK ) as an advisor and

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KARL LLEWELLYN'S DUELING CANONS IN PERSPECTIVE Book Format (Please Select):EBOOK ) as an advisor andIn 1950 the great realist jurisprude Karl N. Llewellyn wrote that accepted rules of statutory interpretation "canons of construction" led "in happily variant directions." In support he offered a list of twenty eight pairs of canons, each pair a "thrust" and a "parry" having opposite effect. Llewellyn's thesis was widely considered devastating to the legitimacy of canons, and for almost half a century academic research on them virtually ceased. In this