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University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound J ournal Articles Faculty Scholarship 1988 Book Review (reviewing Eskridge, William N., J., Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (1988)) Richard A. Posner Follow this and additional works at : /journal_articles Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Richard A. Posner, Book Review (reviewing Eskridge, illiam N., J., Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (1988)), 74 Virginia Law R eview 1567 (1988). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal Articles by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact unbound@. BOOK REVIEW CASES AND MATERIALS ON LEGISLATION: STATUTES AND THE CREATION OF PUBLIC POLICY. By William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1988, 937 pages. Reviewed by RichardA. Posner* The Eskridge and Frickey casebook on legislation is far and away the best set of teaching materials on the subject of legislation that has ever been pub- lished. Moreover, it has the potential to alter the law school curriculum; of few casebooks can thatbe said. The enormous growth of American government in this century has gener- ated an explosion of legislation; as a result, the creation and interpretation of statutes are now paramount concerns of the legal profession. Law schools recognize this to the extent of offering numerous courses built around stat- utes-courses in antitrust, labor, copyright, bankruptcy, pension law, wel- fare, employment discrimination, and the like. But about the natur