Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
Did you know that Justice Antonin Scalia has a new book out, hitting stores tomorrow?
Tomorrow happens to be my birthday. I think I’ll go out and buy myself this present: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner. As you may recall, Justice Scalia and Garner have worked together in the past. They previously co-authored an excellent book on advocacy, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.
In their newest book, Scalia and Garner view things from the other side of the bench, from the perspective of the judge rather than the advocate. Here’s a brief blurb from Amazon:
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/justice-scalia-and-bryan-garner-on-the-interpretation-of-legal-texts/-------------------------------------
"The Law"!
FIVE WORDS AND TEN COMMANDMENTS TO VICTORY:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htmWithout Justice, there is JUST_US!
"The Law"!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htmWord Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Truth / True"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/truth-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Oath"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/oath-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"(un)Lawful(ly)"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/lawful-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"God"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/god-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Authority"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/author-.shtml WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OBSTRUCTS JUSTICE - DEVVY
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd348.htm The Law Library - Reading Room
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/index.shtml#top ==========================================
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….
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.
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/justice-scalia-and-bryan-garner-on-the-interpretation-of-legal-texts/Reading Law is structured as a catalog of the canons of interpretation – 57 in all – complete with their Latin roots, in many cases. An example from chapter 10: expressio unius est exclusio alterius is the negative-implication canon, meaning that if a text explicitly covers one thing, it usually means that it does not cover other things. The authors gave a real-life illustration: “When a car dealer promises a low financing rate to ‘purchasers with good credit,’ it is entirely clear that the rate is not available to purchasers with spotty credit.”
-------------------------------------
The Oath of Office
Listen to:
Frederick Bastiat's (1801 - 1850)
"The Law"
http://www.apfn.org/audio/thelaw.mp3 read by G Edward Griffin
The Law
by Frederick Bastiat
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm Without Justice, there is JUST_US!
"The Law"!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htmWord Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Truth / True"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/truth-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Oath"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/oath-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"(un)Lawful(ly)"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/lawful-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"God"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/god-.shtml Word Study from Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
"Authority"
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/bouvier/author-.shtml THE LAW.... Tell the Judge...
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htm-----------------------------
Reading Law is structured as a catalog of the canons of interpretation – 57 in all – complete with their Latin roots, in many cases. An example from chapter 10: expressio unius est exclusio alterius is the negative-implication canon, meaning that if a text explicitly covers one thing, it usually means that it does not cover other things. The authors gave a real-life illustration: “When a car dealer promises a low financing rate to ‘purchasers with good credit,’ it is entirely clear that the rate is not available to purchasers with spotty credit.”
In a piece over the weekend in the New York Times, Adam Liptak examined the book in terms of the light it might shed on Justice Scalia’s rulings in future cases. Liptak noted, for example, that based on the justice’s comments in the book about Wickard v. Filburn (1942), Scalia probably won’t be siding with the government on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/justice-scalia-and-bryan-garner-on-the-interpretation-of-legal-texts/Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts [Amazon (affiliate link)]
Hints in New Scalia Book of Views on Health Law [New York Times]
In second book, Scalia, Garner warn judicial decisions leading to ‘descent into social rancor’ [National Law Journal via WSJ Law Blog]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031427555X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dealbreaker-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=031427555X======================================
AMERICAN PATRIOT FRIENDS NETWORK
".... a network of net-worker's...."
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/234999.htmlWORDS AND TEN COMMANDMENTS TO VICTORY:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htm
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/thelaw.htm18 Jun 2012 at 11:04 AMPosted in:
Adam Liptak, Antonin Scalia, Books, Constitutional Law, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Tony Mauro
Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner on the Interpretation of Legal Texts
By David Lat
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/justice-scalia-and-bryan-garner-on-the-interpretation-of-legal-texts/