Bryan Garner
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Bryan A. Garner (left) works on a book with Antonin Scalia.
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November 17, 1958 Lubbock, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Lawyer, lexicographer, teacher |
| Notable works | Garner's Modern English Usage, Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage |
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Bryan A. Garner (born November 17, 1958) is an American lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher who has written more than two dozen books about English usage and style, and advocacy. He wrote two books with Justice Antonin Scalia: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (2008) and Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012). Founder and president of LawProse Inc., he serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
He has taught at The University of Texas School of Law, the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Texas Tech University School of Law, and Texas A&M University School of Law. He has been awarded three honorary doctorates (Stetson, La Verne, and Thomas M. Cooley Law School).
Garner was born in Lubbock,Texas and raised in San Marino, California, and Canyon, Texas. He attended Canyon High School, then the University of Texas at Austin, where he was enrolled in a liberal arts honors program called Plan II (1977–1980). Garner published excerpts from his senior thesis, notably "Shakespeare's Latinate Neologisms" and "Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible." After seeing an early draft of his undergraduate work, linguist Thomas Cable declared, "Let's give him a Ph.D!"
After receiving his B.A. degree, Garner entered the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. After receiving his J.D. degree in 1984, he clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before joining the Dallas firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, where he worked as a litigation associate from 1985 to 1988. He then returned to the University of Texas School of Law as a visiting associate professor of law and was named director of the Texas/Oxford Center for Legal Lexicography, while teaching upper-division seminars on writing and editing at the law school. In 1990, he left the University to found LawProse Inc., a Dallas firm that provides seminars on clear writing for lawyers and judges and offers consulting services on appellate and high-stakes briefing and revising corporate and other legal documents.
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