A Common Law for the Age of Statutes /

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes / / Guido CALABRESI.

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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide whe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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CALABRESI, Guido,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1982
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • A Common Law for the Age of Statutes I Choking on Statutes
  • I Choking on Statutes
  • II The Flight to the Constitution and to Equal Protection Clauses
  • III The Passive Virtues
  • IV Interpretation
  • V The New Deal Response: Administrative Agencies
  • VI Legislative Responses
  • VII Structural Responses
  • VIII A New Approach: Antecedents and Roots
  • IX The Doctrine: A Question of Legitimacy
  • X The Doctrine: Limits and Guidelines
  • XI The Doctrine: Techniques and Feasibility
  • XII The Role of Courts in an Age of Statutes
  • XIII The Dangers of the Doctrine
  • XIV The Uses and Abuses of Subterfuge
  • XV The Choice for Candor
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Table of Cases
  • Index

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