Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts PDF

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.

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts pdf von Bryan Garner

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.