Law and the Limits of Reason - Brossura

Vermeule, Adrian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199914095 ISBN 13: 9780199914098

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Riassunto

Human reason is limited. What are the consequences of this fact for the contested lawmaking claims between courts, legislatures and the executive branch? In light of the limits of reason, how should legal institutions be designed? In Law and the Limits of Reason, Adrian Vermeule criticizes the view that the limits of reason counsel in favor of judicial lawmaking in the style of the common law. He argues that there is no logical connection between the limits of reason, on the one hand, and the superiority of common law or of judge-made constitutional law on the other. The relatively small number of judges on relevant courts, their limited informational base and generalist rather than specialized skills, ensure that judicial reason is itself sharply limited and that the argument to judicial lawmaking from the limits of reason outruns the logical, causal, and evidentiary support.

Instead, Adrian Vermeule proposes and defends a "codified constitution" - a regime in which legislatures have the primary authority to develop constitutional law over time, through statutes and constitutional amendments. Precisely because of the limits of human reason, large modern legislatures, with their numerous membership, complex internal structures for processing information and their abundant informational resources, are the most effective lawmaking institutions. Law and the Limits of Reason, now in paperback, serves as a thought-provoking companion to any constitutional law course of study.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Adrian Vermeule is the John H. Watson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he previously taught at the University of Chicago Law School for seven years, where he was twice awarded with the Graduating Students' Award for Teaching Excellence. He also served as a clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Contenuti:

• Introduction: The Limits of Reason in Legal Theory
• Chapter 1: Many-Minds Arguments
• Chapter 2: The Constitutional Common Law: Information Aggregation
• Chapter 3: The Constitutional Common Law: Evolution
• Chapter 4: Justices and Company
• Chapter 5: Unintended Consequences and Constitutional Amendments
• Conclusion: From the Common-Law Constitution to the Codified Constitution
• Acknowledgements
• Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199914095
• ISBN 13: 9780199914098
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 220