TY - BOOK ID - 7253168 TI - Reading law : the interpretation of legal texts. AU - Garner Bryan A AU - Scalia, Antonin. PY - 2012 SN - 9780314275554 031427555X PB - Saint Paul Thomson West DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Judicial process KW - Statutes KW - Jurisprudence. KW - Legal reasoning KW - Jurisprudence KW - Analogy (Law) KW - Construction and interpretation (Law) KW - Construction and interpretation of statutes KW - Interpretation and construction (Law) KW - Statutory construction KW - Judicial discretion KW - Legal certainty KW - Interpretation and construction. KW - Philosophy. KW - Methodology. KW - Philosophy KW - Construction KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7253168 AB - 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. ER -