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The law as it could be / Owen Fiss.
LIBRA KF4541 .F575 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiss, Owen M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- History.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--United States--Cases.
- Constitutional law.
- United States. Supreme Court--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece--some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal stud.
- Contents:
- The forms of justice
- The social and political foundations of adjudication
- The right degree of independence
- The bureaucratization of the judiciary
- Against settlement
- The allure of individualism
- The political theory of the class action
- The awkwardness of the criminal law
- Objectivity and interpretation
- Judging as a practice
- The death of law?
- Reason vs. passion
- The irrepressibility of reason
- Bush v. Gore and the question of legitimacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814727255
- 0814727263
- OCLC:
- 51755964
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