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West
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
600 pages
ISBN: 031427555X
EAN: 9780314275554
Kindle: B008MFO6YG
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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.
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