1st Edition

Studies in Law and Politics

Edited By Harold Laski Copyright 2010
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic. But Laski had a purpose in addition to the purely scholarly: he was eagerly pursuing possibilities for social and political change. Laski sought tirelessly for opportunities to act on those possibilities and, as is the case throughout his work, his academic and political purposes have no clear boundary between them.... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION PREFACE II I. THE AGE OF REASON II. DIDEROT III. THE SOCIALIST TRADITION IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IV. THE PROBLEM OF A SECOND CHAMBER V. THE STATE IN THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER VI. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES VII. THE TECHNIQUE OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT VIII. THE PERSONNEL OF THE BRITISH CABINET, I80I-I924 IX. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL POLICY X. PROCEDURE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE CONTEMPT XI. LAW AND THE STATE XII. JUSTICE AND THE LAW INDEX

Biography

Harold Laski