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Transitions : legal change, legal meanings / edited by Austin Sarat.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial review.
- Justice, Administration of--Political aspects.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Law.
- Rule of law.
- Transitional justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of US law during moments of political change and explore what we can learn about law by examining its role and its use in times of transition. Whether by an abrupt shift in regime or an orderly progression from one government to the next, political change often calls into question
- Contents:
- Midnight deregulation / Jack M. Beermann
- Commentary : judicial review of midnight deregulation / Heather Elliott
- Midnight rulemaking and congress / Nina Mendelson
- Commentary : is there a silver lining to midnight mischief? / William L. Andreen
- Reconstructing the Republic : the great transition of the 1860's / Akhil Reed Amar, Lindsey Ohlsson Worth, and Joshua Alexander Geltzer
- Commentary : ordinary and extraordinary transitions / Paul Horwitz
- Transitional disclosures : what transitional justice reveals about "law" / David Gray
- Commentary : power, paradigms, and legal prescriptions : "the rule of law" as a necessary but not sufficient condition for transitional justice / Meredith Render
- Global transitions, new perspectives on legality, and judicial review / Ruti Teitel
- Commentary : comment on professor Ruti Teitel's "global transitions, new perspectives on legality and judicial review" / Daniel H. Joyner, contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8593-2
- OCLC:
- 794663715
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