He serves on the Board of Advisers of The Green Bag. He has been awarded three honorary doctorates from Stetson, La Verne, and Thomas M. Garner has taught at the University of Texas School of Law, the UC Berkeley School of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law, and Texas A&M University School of Law. In 1990, he left the university to found LawProse Inc., which provides seminars on clear writing, briefing and editing for lawyers and judges. He then returned to the University of Texas School of Law and was named director of the Texas/Oxford Center for Legal Lexicography. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before he joined the Dallas firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal. Career Īfter receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1984, he clerked for Judge Thomas M. Īfter receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree, Garner entered the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he published excerpts from his senior thesis, notably "Shakespeare's Latinate Neologisms" and "Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible". Garner was born on November 17, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas, and raised in Canyon, Texas. He is also a lecturer at his alma mater, the University of Texas School of Law. Garner serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. He is the founder and president of LawProse Inc. Garner also 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). He has written more than two dozen books about English usage and style such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience, and others for legal professionals. Garner's Modern English Usage (1998–2016)īryan Andrew Garner (born November 17, 1958) is an American legal scholar and lexicographer.Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage (1987–2011).
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