Research Catalog

Title

A matter of interpretation : federal courts and the law : an essay / by Antonin Scalia ; with commentary by Amy Gutmann, editor, Gordon S. Wood, Laurence H. Tribe, Mary Ann Glendon, Ronald Dworkin ; with a new introduction by Akhil Reed Amar ; and a new afterword by Steven G. Calabresi.

Author

Scalia, Antonin,

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford [United Kingdom] : Princeton University Press, 2018.
• ©1997

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
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Details

Additional Authors

• Dworkin, Ronald,
• Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
• Gutmann, Amy,
• Tribe, Laurence H.,
• Wood, Gordon S.,

Description

xxiv, 173 pages; 22 cm

Series Statement

The University Center for Human Values series

Uniform Title

University Center for Human Values series.

Alternative Title

Federal courts and the law, an essay

Subjects

• Verfassungsauslegung
• USA > Supreme Court
• Gesetz
• Constitutional law > United States
• Interpretation
• Law > United States > Interpretation and construction
• Law > Interpretation and construction
• United States
• Auslegung
• Judge-made law > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction to the new edition / Akhil Reed Amar -- Common-law courts in a civil-law system : the role of United States federal courts in interpreting the Constitution and laws / Antonin Scalia -- Comment / Gordon S. Wood -- Comment / Laurence H. Tribe -- Comment / Mary Ann Glendon -- Comment / Ronald Dworkin -- Response / Antonin Scalia -- Afterword to the new edition / Steven G. Calabresi.

ISBN

• 0691174040
• 9780691174044

LCCN

2017953346

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library