Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Author	Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
Subject	Legal principles and canons for interpreting texts
Publisher	Thomson West
Publication date	2012
Pages	567
ISBN	978-0-314-27555-4

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts is a 2012 book by United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner. Following a forward written by Frank Easterbrook, then Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Scalia and Garner present textualist principles and canons applicable to the analysis of all legal texts, following by approaches specific to the interpretation of government statutes. Finally, Scalia and Garner present "Thirteen Falsities Exposed," mostly focused on attacking the philosophy of a Living Constitution, in which the interpretation of legal texts evolves alongside public attitudes.^[1]