by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Text trumps purpose. That’s the core meaning of Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s second fundamental interpretive principle: “The words of a ...

Part of a series on Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner The absolutist assertion, commonly made by moral relativists, that “there are no ...

Part of a series on Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s negative-implication canon states ...

Part of a series on Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Is a taco a sandwich? That was the real-world legal issue in a case that Justice ...

by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s fifth fundamental principle—“An interpretation that validates outweighs one that invalidates”—may usefully ...

In the journal Democracy, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar reviews Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, the new treatise co-authored by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner.

Part of a series on Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Having addressed most of Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s fundamental ...

by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner’s fixed-meaning canon—“Words must be given the meaning they had when the text was adopted”—is the core tenet ...