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Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts Hardcover – Import, 19 June 2012
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- ISBN-10031427555X
- ISBN-13978-0314275554
- Edition1st
- PublisherWest Group
- Publication date19 June 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions16.51 x 4.45 x 23.5 cm
- Print length567 pages
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- Publisher : West Group; 1st edition (19 June 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 567 pages
- ISBN-10 : 031427555X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0314275554
- Item Weight : 454 g
- Dimensions : 16.51 x 4.45 x 23.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #344,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,411 in Law (Books)
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Bryan A. Garner (born Nov. 17, 1958) is an American lawyer, grammarian, and lexicographer. He also writes on jurisprudence (and occasionally golf). He is the author of over 25 books, the best-known of which are Garner’s Modern English Usage (4th ed. 2016) and Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012—coauthored with Justice Antonin Scalia), as well as four unabridged editions of Black’s Law Dictionary. He serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. He also teaches from time to time at the University of Texas School of Law, Texas A&M School of Law, and Texas Tech School of Law.
In 2009, he was named Legal-Writing and Reference-Book Author of the Decade at a Burton Awards ceremony at the Library of Congress. He has received many other awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Book Award, the Scribes Book Award, the Bernie Siegan Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Plain Language.
His work has played a central role in our understanding of modern judging, advocacy, grammar, English usage, legal lexicography, and the common-law system of precedent. His books are frequently cited by American courts of all levels, including the United States Supreme Court.
His friendship with the novelist David Foster Wallace is memorialized in Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (2013). His friendship and writing partnership with Justice Antonin Scalia is depicted in the memoir Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia (2018).
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Out of the dry matter of judicial interpretation, Scalia and Garner make an elegant case for judicial restraint as one of the bedrocks of American democracy. The authors codify canons of statutory interpretation that have enjoyed storeyed use, predominantly borrowing from Anglo-American jurisprudence. In a subsequent section, they deal with a variety of false notions and half-truths, reserving particularly withering scorn for legislative intent. (Which legislative intent? Of one congressman? Or lobbyist? And at which point in the legislative process? And why should the voice of one be allowed to rule the democractic will of the assembly as reflected in the words of the statute?)
The authors' case is that judicial respect for the statutes issuing from democratic assemblies is respect for the democratic process itself. It is clear throughout the work that the authors view the beginning of judicial activism as the end of democratic oversight and control. Scalia and Garner write respectively from a social conservative and socially liberal perspective, in favour of originalist and textualist interpretative approaches, and it is greatly to be regretted that these approaches are often crudely described as conservative, as though liberalism and the soundest interpretations of the democratic will were contradictory. To be a liberal textualist or liberal originalist is no more contradictory than to be a conservative consequentialist.
There is a poignancy too in reading the text: how greatly it is to be regretted that one American's finest jurists was taken from us in - judging by this work - his intellectual prime.




Regardless of whether you agreed with Scalia's jurisprudence, this book is a valuable resource. Interpreting the law is the perfect title for this book...and...if the title doesn't get you excited, I can't imagine what lies between the front and back cover will either. Perhaps someone with an incredible passion for the law might find the subject matter fascinating, but for the most part, this is more of an instruction manual than an academically oriented read. I am a new attorney and refer to this text at least three or four times each week.
I don't remember what I paid for this--but I would pay triple knowing what I know now.
Scalia left an indelible mark on the Court, the legal community, and by virtue of his position as a justice, the course of the United States. I suspect there will be several books written about the man Scalia was--this is not one of them. Rather, this is a gift to those who practice that will be relevant for generations.