Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts pdf

布莱恩·加纳（1958 年 11 月 17 日出生）是美国律师、语法学家和词典编纂者。他还撰写有关法理学的文章（偶尔也会写高尔夫）。他着有超过 25 本书，其中最著名的是 Garner 的《现代英语用法》（2016 年第 4 版）和《阅读法：法律文本的解释》（2012 年——与安东宁·斯卡利亚大法官合着），以及四本未删节的布莱克法律词典的版本。他担任南卫理公会大学法学杰出研究教授。他还不时在德克萨斯大学法学院、德克萨斯 A&M 法学院和德克萨斯理工大学法学院任教。 2009 年，他在国会图书馆举行的伯顿奖颁奖典礼上被评为十年法律写作和参考书作者。他还获得了许多其他奖项，包括本杰明·富兰克林图书奖、文士图书奖、伯尼·西根奖和明语中心颁发的终身成就奖。 他的工作在我们理解现代判断、辩护、语法、英语用法、法律词典和普通法判例系统方面发挥了核心作用。他的著作经常被包括美国最高法院在内的美国各级法院引用。

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts pdf 布莱恩·加纳

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.