Reading Law The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Name: Reading Law The Interpretation of Legal Texts
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ISBN: 9780314275554

ISBN-10: 031427555X

ISBN-13: 9780314275554

Edition: 2012

Authors: Antonin Scalia, Bryan A. Garner

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In this groundbreaking book by best-selling authors Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation are systematically explained in an engaging and informative style-including several hundred illustrations from actual cases. Never before has legal interpretation been so fascinatingly explained. Both authors are individually renowned for their scintillating prose styles, and together they make even the seemingly dry subject of legal interpretation riveting. Though intended primarily for judges and the lawyers who appear before them to argue the meaning of texts, Reading Law is sound educational reading…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: West Publishing Company, College & School Division
Publication date: 6/19/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.508
Language: English

Bryan A. Garner is president of LawProse, Inc., and Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. The editor-in-chief of Black's Law Dictionary, Garner is the author of several best-selling books, including Garner's Modern American Usage and, with Justice Antonin Scalia, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts and Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Preface



Introduction



Sound Principles of Interpretation



Principles Applicable to All Texts


Fundamental Principles


Semantic Canons


Syntactic Canons


Contextual Canons



Principles Applicable Specifically to Governmental Prescriptions


Expected-Meaning Canons


Government-Structuring Canons


Private-Right Canons


Stabilizing Canons



Thirteen Falsities Exposed



Afterword



A Note on the Use of Dictionaries



A Glossary of Legal Interpretation


Table of Cases


Bibliography


Index