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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 representative opinions and offer analytic introductions to each set of opinions. They include Scalia's opinions in the areas of constitutional structure, structure and procedures of the judiciary, fundamental rights and freedoms, rights of the accused, and statutory and treaty interpretation. The book also includes three of Justice Scalia's important concurrences. 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. xxiv, 474 pp. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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This collection is an editorial coup. Hoeflich and Skepnek have assembled and introduced a set of judicial opinions that will enable the reader to get a well-rounded sense of the work of an extraordinarily important and controversial judge. The key to the quality of their work is what it lacks: ax-grinding. Scalia-the-genius, Scalia-the-groundbreaker, and Scalia the shin-kicker combined during his lifetime to inspire sentiments both of admiration and of animosity. Hoeflich and Skepnek have managed to set aside both kinds of feelings, and to offer instead a useful mix of critical, respectful scholarly commentary and intriguing, thought-provoking Scalia opinions-- some classic headline-grabbers, some important obscurities. -- Ross E. Davies, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University Hoeflich and Skepnek have assembled here the very best of Justice Antonin Scalia's majority and concurring opinions, bolstered by a wonderful introductory essay, that clearly show how he single-handedly changed the direction of American Constitutional law forever through his twin decision-making theories of historically-based Originalism and Textualism. -- Bruce Allen Murphy, Author of Scalia: A Court of One

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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. William Skepnek is an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas.

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