1st Edition

Limits Of Law Essays On Democratic Governance

By Peter Schuck Copyright 2000
504 Pages
by Routledge

508 Pages
by Routledge

504 Pages
by Routledge

Law is an increasingly pervasive force in our society. At the same time, however, the obstacles to law’s effectiveness are also growing. In The limits of Law, Yale law professor Peter H, Schuck draws on law, social science, and history to explore this momentous clash between law’s compelling promise of ordered liberty and the realistic limits of its capacity to deliver on this promise. Schuck... Read more
Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Constraints and Challenges -- Legal Complexity -- Multi-Culturalism Redux -- Some Reflections on the Federalism Debate -- Institutions and Processes -- The Politics of Regulation -- When the Exception Becomes the Rule -- Law and Post-Privatization Regulatory Reform -- Against (and for) Madison -- Delegation and Democracy -- To the Chevron Station -- The Thickest Thicket -- Mass Torts -- Public Law Litigation and Social Reform -- Mapping the Limits of Law -- The Limits of Law

Biography

Peter Schuck