ch. 1. On scope and function of legislation. Legal and non-legal norms ; Province of federal and state legislation and province of judicial creation ; Aspects of legislative discretion
ch. 2. Public or general acts, private or special and local acts, and title of an act
ch. 3. Characteristics of the legislative process. Limitations on the legislative power ; Judicial control over the regularity in legislative proceedings
ch. 4. Publication of statutes and their proof
ch. 5. Judicial review of legislative facts
ch. 6. Mistake of law, particularly statutory law. Cases ; Comments
ch. 7. Judicial changes of statutory construction
ch. 8. Legislation aimed at interpretation
ch. 9. Importance of characterization of a statute for the interpretative method
ch. 10. Ex-post-facto laws
ch. 11. The conflict of laws in time. General concepts ; Curative acts ; Statutory limitations of actions and other so-called remedial statutes ; Changes of the law pendente lite ; The reliance concept and the public interest ; Tax statutes
ch. 12. Compilation, revision and codification of statutes
ch. 13. Legislation by reference, legislation by adoption and uniform legislation
ch. 14. Delegated legislation
ch. 15. The problem of definiteness of statutory standards for personal conduct
ch. 16. Laws in pari materia : the treatment of legislative errors. "In pari materia" ; Legislative errors
ch. 17. Introduction to the law of statutory interpretation
ch. 18. Problems of literal interpretation. Literal or teleological interpretation ; On limits set for a literalist ; Coincidence of literal with logical interpretation
ch. 19. Fallacies of mechanical interpretation
ch. 20. Administrative interpretation
ch. 21. The significance of legislative history for interpretation
ch. 22. Restrictive interpretation
ch. 23. Extensive interpretation
ch. 24. Statutory analogy.