KARL LLEWELLYN'S DUELING CANONS IN PERSPECTIVE Book Format (Please Select):EBOOK but in all spheres of

but in all spheres of their lives

They all appear to run the regular gauntlet of touching upon familiar issues

have become central issues of debate within liberal democracies

Can lawyers really pull rabbits out of hats with unexpected courtroom stunts

KARL LLEWELLYN'S DUELING CANONS IN PERSPECTIVE Book Format (Please Select):EBOOK but in all spheres ofIn 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