The limits of law : essays on democratic governance /

"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 co...

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Main Author: Schuck, Peter H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Series:New perspectives on law, culture, & society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Legal complexity : some causes, consequences, and cures
  • Ch. 2. Multi-culturalism redux : science, law, and politics
  • Ch. 3. Some reflections on the federalism debate
  • Ch. 4. The politics of regulation
  • Ch. 5. When the exception becomes the rule : regulatory equity and the formulation of energy policy through an exceptions process
  • Ch. 6. Law and post-privatization regulatory reform : perspectives from the U.S. experience
  • Ch. 7. Against (and for) Madison : an essay in praise of factions
  • Ch. 8. Delegation and democracy : comments on David Schoenbrod
  • Ch. 9. To the Chevron station : an empirical study of federal administrative law
  • Ch. 10. The thickest thicket : partisan gerrymandering and judicial regulation of politics
  • Ch. 11. Mass torts : an institutional evolutionist perspective
  • Ch. 12. Public law litigation and social reform
  • Ch. 13. The limits of law.