Legislative deferrals: Statutory ambiguity, judicial power, and American democracy

Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-290

  Lovell, George I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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