Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence
Subtitle: text and tradition
By: Ralph A. Rossum.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Lawrence, Kan.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Scalia, Antonin; United States. Supreme Court -- Biography; Constitutional history -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction
Description: "Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court."

"This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire nineteen-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph Rossum focuses on Scalia's more than 600 Supreme Court opinions and dissents - carefully wrought, passionately argued, and filled with well-turned phrases - which portray him as an eloquent defender of an "original meaning" jurisprudence. He also includes analyses of Scalia's Court of Appeals opinions for the D.C. Circuit, his major law review articles as a law professor and judge, and his provocative book, A Matter of Interpretation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Text and tradition" : Scalia's understanding of the interpretative enterprise; title: Constitutional structure and separation of powers; title: Constitutional structure and federalism; title: Scalia's textualism applied to substantive rights; title: Scalia's textualism applied to procedural rights; title: The impact of Scalia's textualism on his colleagues appendix. Cases in which Justice Scalia has cited dictionaries.