Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Threlkeld drafted bills for eleven years in a parliamentary counsel's office, learning to write each provision for a reader who would arrive long after the debate that produced it. His research concerns that later reader: how courts construe a statutory word whose drafters can no longer be asked, how far the explanatory memorandum is allowed to speak for them, and what becomes of a section once a decision has fixed its meaning. He convenes the School's course in statutory interpretation and keeps its collection of annotated second-reading speeches.
Research indicators
| Research outputs | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations | 58 |
| h-index | 5 |
| Collaboration breadth | 20 co-authors |
| Active since | 2026 |
Research outputs
- Who Fails First
- The Chemistry Says When. We Say Whether.
- Days on the Ground
- Questions of Conscience, Carefully Settled
- The Energy Cost of a Deadline
- The Usual Work-up
- What the Joint Keeps
- Ancient Swells
- What Passes with the Paddock
- Mixing Rules
- Everything We Receive Was Sent Long Ago
- The Tin Keeps Its Summers
- Distinguished, Not Overruled
- Debated Once
- The Caption of Record
- The Trapezoid Clause
- Leases That End Before the Panels Do
- Borrowed from the Following Year
- Taken at Month Eighteen
- Back Sooner, Not More Often
- What the Word Was Worth
- The Listing Room
- What the Rhythm Still Carries
- The Rule That Never Fires
- Settled Elsewhere
- Written on the Mend
- Where the Catalyst Changes Hands
- Received Before It Was Checked
- The Peg Moved. The Line Did Not.
- Reading an Inherited House of Quality
- Study How a Question Stays Decided
- Ghost Piospheres
- Who Paid for a Doubtful Word
- The Presumption of Purpose
- What Runs in Families
- Somebody Here Studies That
- Every Root Invites. Not Every Root Offers.
- How It's Done Here
- Half the Molecule, Half the Royalty
- The Reward Positivity Survives the Night
- Decided at Highway Speed
- Argued Until Marked
- Choose the Sign Once
- Restored to Its Description
- Credit Outlasts the Current
- Drafted Before the Jet. Read After It.
- What the Portal Can Read
- Harvest on the Downbeat
- Slow Ink, Binding Signature
- Was the Junction Potential Subtracted?
- The Long Memory
- The Same Wind Farm, Repowered