Black's Law Dictionary PDF Rezension

Bryan Garner (* 17. November 1958) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jurist, Grammatiker und Lexikograph. Er schreibt auch über Jurisprudenz (und gelegentlich über Golf). Er ist Autor von über 25 Büchern, von denen die bekanntesten Garner's Modern English Usage (4. Aufl. 2016) und Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 – gemeinsam mit Richter Antonin Scalia) sind, sowie vier ungekürzte Bücher Ausgaben des Black's Law Dictionary. Er ist Distinguished Research Professor of Law an der Southern Methodist University. Von Zeit zu Zeit unterrichtet er auch an der University of Texas School of Law, der Texas A&M School of Law und der Texas Tech School of Law. 2009 wurde er bei einer Verleihung der Burton Awards in der Library of Congress zum Legal-Writing and Reference-Book Author of the Decade ernannt. Er hat viele weitere Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter den Benjamin Franklin Book Award, den Scribes Book Award, den Bernie Siegan Award und einen Lifetime Achievement Award des Center for Plain Language. Seine Arbeit hat eine zentrale Rolle in unserem Verständnis von moderner Urteilsbildung, Advocacy, Grammatik, englischem Sprachgebrauch, juristischer Lexikographie und dem Common-Law-Präzedenzsystem gespielt. Seine Bücher werden häufig von amerikanischen Gerichten aller Ebenen zitiert, einschließlich des United States Supreme Court.

Black's Law Dictionary pdf Rezension von Bryan Garner

For nearly 130 years, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of the law.The greatly expanded 11th edition, with new material on every page, is at once the most practical, comprehensive, scholarly, and authoritative law dictionary ever published. With clarity and rigor, it defines more than 55,000 law-related words and phrases, recording their historical and present-day nuances. This edition introduces 3,500 new terms, including accountability, anticipatory self-defense, cyber force, Islamic law, Jewish law, legal moralism, legal reasoning, moral equality, peacekeeping, remotely piloted warfare, right to rebel, and umbrella clause.More than 900 Latin maxims have been added, newly translated, and carefully indexed for this edition, making Black’s Law Dictionary the most thorough and reliable source for these essential and often elusive items.Headwords are given their dates of earliest known use in English-language sources, giving dictionary users a greater sense of historical context. Black’s Law Dictionary is the only legal dictionary to provide such data.The extensive bibliography lists the more than 1,000 classics of legal literature that are briefly quoted throughout the dictionary to amplify the user’s understanding of legal terminology. Each of the more than 6,000 quotations locates a critical and otherwise hard-to-find explanation of the terms under discussion.Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner, the world’s leading legal lexicographer, has assembled an unmatched roster of academic and practicing contributors who have vetted every term for accuracy. Never has such a distinguished lineup of legal talent been arrayed in support of a legal reference work.If you’re using an edition that was current when you were in law school, you’re out of date. If you think a dictionary is useful mainly as a doorstop, you haven’t browsed the pages of this 11th edition. Once you do, you’ll find it hard to put down. Within moments, you’ll probably find something you want to cite.