Limits Of Law: Essays On Democratic Governance

ISBN-13: 9780813367583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 507 str.

Peter H. Schuck

Opis

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 first discusses the constraints within which law must worklaw's own complexity, the cultural chasms it must bridge, and the social diversity it must accommodateand proceeds to consider the ways law uses regulatory, legislative, and adjudicatory processes to influence social behavior. He shows how politics shapes regulation, how regulation might incorporate individualized equity, and how it can best be reformed. Turning to legislation, he justifies a strong role for special interest groups, dissects the anatomy of purely symbolic statutes, and defends broad delegations of legislative power to regulatory agencies. On adjudication, Schuck analyzes the courts' efforts to advance social justice by controlling federal agencies, constitutionalizing politics, managing mass toxic tort disputes, and reforming public services and institutions. His concluding chapter draws together some general lessons about law's limits and possibilities for improving democratic governance."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Peter Schuck