Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Scalia, Antonin; Garner, Bryan A.

ISBN 10: 031427555X / ISBN 13: 9780314275554

Published by West Group, 2012

About this Item

Signed/Inscribed by Antonin Scalia. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket has a protective Brodart. " Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 ? February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century,[7] and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court.[8] Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor." (Wikipedia 9/19/2025).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
• Publisher: West Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031427555X
• ISBN 13: 9780314275554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2.38 pounds
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style - with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you "using a gun" in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled,lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated. - Publisher.