1L - First Year Lesson Topics

Interpretation involves ascertaining the meaning of the words and provisions of a contract. Article 2 of the UCC is intended not to regulate commercial activity, but to facilitate it. An important part of commerce is business practices in general and in particular, usages of trade and understandings of the parties to the contract. Therefore, this lesson emphasizes those parts of interpretation. For a broader discussion of interpretation in contract law, see the CALI Lesson Interpretation of Contracts.

This lesson reviews the material addressing Brand X, the major questions doctrine, and deference to agency interpretations of regulations in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).

This lesson reviews the material addressing Skidmore v. Swift, Chevron v. NRDC, and United States v. Mead in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).

This lesson reviews the introductory material addressing agencies in Chapter 7 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering agencies and statutory interpretation).

This lesson reviews the material addressing preemption, sovereign immunity, retroactivity, and implied causes of action in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).

This lesson reviews the material addressing the constitutional avoidance canon, severability, and the federalism canon in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).

This lesson reviews the material addressing common law canons, the remedial statutes canon, and the rule of lenity in Chapter 6 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering substantive policy canons).

This lesson reviews the material addressing subsequent legislative action, inaction, and stare decisis in Chapter 5 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering extrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the material in the first three sections of Chapter 5 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering extrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the structural canons covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the punctuation, grammar, and textual canons covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).

This lesson reviews the exceptions to the plain meaning rule covered in Chapter 4 of the CALI eLangdell casebook, Statutory Law: A Course Source (covering intrinsic sources).