Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
Antonin Scalia (Author), Bryan A. Garner (Author)
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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 for anyone who seeks to understand how judges decide cases-or should decide cases. The book is a superb introduction to modern judicial decision-making. Justice Scalia, with 25 years of experience on the Supreme Court, is the foremost expositor of textualism in the world today. Bryan A. Garner, as editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage, is the most renowned expert on the language of the law. Reading Law is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to prevail in a legal argument-based on a constitution, a statute, or a contract. The book is calculated to promote valid interpretations: if you have lame arguments, you'll deplore the book; if you have strong arguments, you'll exalt it. But whatever your position, you'll think about law more clearly than ever before.

• Rank: #10876 in Books
• Published on: 2012-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.90" h x 5.80" w x 9.10" l, 2.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 608 pages

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Interest in interpretation has emerged in recent years as one of the main intellectual paradigms of legal scholarship. This collection of new essays in law and interpretation provides the reader with an overview of this important topic, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The book begins with interpretation as a general method of legal theorizing, and thus provides critical assessment of the recent "interpretative turn" in jurisprudence. Further chapters include essays on the nature of interpretation, its objectivity, the possible determinacy of legal standards, and their nature. Concluding with a series of articles on the role of legislative intent in the interpretation of statutes, this work offers new and refreshing insights into this old controversy.

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format hardback title reading law the interpretation of legal texts the interpretation of legal texts author scalia antonin garner bryan a publisher west group publication date apr 25 2012 pages 608 binding hardcover edition 1 st dimensions 6 90 wx 9 50 hx 2 50 d isbn 031427555 x subject law research description argues that originalism the principle of upholding a law based on its original meaning is the most effective method for interpreting them discussing the history semantics and context o

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Oxford University Press, USA 9780198264873 Law and Interpretation: Essays in Legal Philosophy Description Interest in interpretation has emerged in recent years as one of the main intellectual paradigms of legal scholarship. This collection of new essays in law and interpretation provides the reader with an overview of this important topic, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The book begins with interpretation as a general method of legal theorizing, and thus provi