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During his thirty years on the United States Supreme Court, the late United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia left an indelible impression not just for his influential conservative opinions, quick intellect and larger-than-life presence, but for the clarity and grace of his judicial writing style. Scalia's writings are appreciated as exceptional among judicial opinions not just for the clear reasoning of his legal decisions and viewpoint, but for his sometimes witty, always accessible and carefully chosen language. In this volume the editors have collected some of his most provocative and well-written dissenting opinions and offer analytic introductions to each set of opinions. They include Scalia's opinions in the areas of constitutional structure, judicial power, statutory interpretation, police power, speech, religion and social regulation. Each chapter contains an introduction by the editors. An index to books cited by Scalia offers us the sources of his study on the given opinion. With a general index. xxvii, 554 pp. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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This collection beautifully epitomizes Justice Scalia's famously pugnacious and erudite dissents. Hoeflich and Stegall have done a real service in putting them together and introducing them. This volume showcases Justice Scalia doing what he liked second best (he'd have preferred being in the majority). -- Bryan A. Garner, Coauthor of two books with Justice Scalia, author of Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia This collection of dissents, written by the incomparable Justice Antonin Scalia, show why he will be remembered even above the great Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert H. Jackson, and William O. Douglas as the most visible, passionate, and creatively stylistic of the Supreme Court's Great Dissenters and Lone Wolves. After reading this volume, you will understand why generations from now Scalia's dissents will still be read in legal casebooks by America's law students. -- Bruce Allen Murphy, author of Scalia: A Court of One This wonderful collection will enable lawyers and non-lawyers alike to savor Justice Scalia's legal brilliance, crystalline writing, and delightful humor, even as it will leave them puzzling over how so many of his colleagues could get so much so wrong. -- Edward Whelan, co-editor of Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived Justice Scalia once explained that his dissenting opinions were intentionally powerful and colorful because he wrote them with law students in mind. But they deserve to be read, studied, and enjoyed not just by lawyers, but by all civic-minded Americans. By bringing so many of his best opinions together in this volume, Professor Hoeflich and Justice Stegall have done the country a true service. -- Adam J. White, Director of The Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution

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Michael H. Hoeflich is the John H. & John M. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. Caleb Stegall is an Associate Justice on the Kansas Supreme Court.

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