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Book Review: Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3rd Edition

04 Aug

Oxford University Press sent a review copy of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3d Edition recently. I’ve been paging through this marvelous resource regularly, which is not something I would normally do with a dictionary. In fact, calling the book…

 
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History of Dictionary Usage by the Supreme Court: Is SCOTUS Guidance Needed?

27 Jul

And we are not talking about Black’s Law Dictionary. From the abstract of Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier and Samuel A. Thumma, Scaling the Lexicon Fortress: The United States Supreme Court’s Use of Dictionaries in the Twenty-First Century, 94 Marq. L. Rev….