Constitutional Law as Fiction
Author | : L. H. LaRue |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0271039272 |
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Author | : L. H. LaRue |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0271039272 |
Author | : Ronald Dworkin |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198265573 |
Dworkin's important book is a collection of essays which discuss almost all of the great constitutional issues of the last two decades, including abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexuality, pornography, and free speech. Dworkin offers a consistently liberal view of the Constitution and argues that fidelity to it and to law demands that judges make moral judgments. He proposes that we all interpret the abstract language of the Constitution by reference to moral principles about political decency and justice. His 'moral reading' therefore brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law. The various chapters of this book were first published separately; now drawn together they provide the reader with a rich, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law.
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0268201196 |
Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world. Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life—“cancel culture,” the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law argues that these diverse problems are all a consequence of what Hannah Arendt described as the disappearance of authority in the modern world. In this perceptive study, Steven D. Smith offers a diagnosis explaining how authority today is based in pervasive fictions and how this situation can amount to, as Arendt put it, “the loss of the groundwork of the world.” Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law considers a variety of problems posed by the paradoxical ubiquity and absence of authority in the modern world. Some of these problems are jurisprudential or philosophical in character; others are more practical and lawyerly—problems of presidential powers and statutory and constitutional interpretation; still others might be called existential. Smith’s use of fictions as his purchase for thinking about authority has the potential to bring together the descriptive and the normative and to think about authority as a useful hypothesis that helps us to make sense of the empirical world. This strikingly original book shows that theoretical issues of authority have important practical implications for the kinds of everyday issues confronted by judges, lawyers, and other members of society. The book is aimed at scholars and students of law, political science, and philosophy, but many of the topics it addresses will be of interest to politically engaged citizens.
Author | : Jean Fritz |
Publisher | : Nám |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789991801353 |
Author | : Michael C. Dorf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Dorf's Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status. This book is suitable for adoption as a supplement in an introductory constitutional law course or as a text for an advanced seminar.
Author | : Sanford Levinson |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780810107939 |
From the Preface: "Contemporary theory has usefully analyzed how alternative modes of interpretation produce different meanings, how reading itself is constituted by the variable perspectives of readers, and how these perspectives are in turn defined by prejudices, ideologies, interests, and so forth. Some theorists gave argued persuasively that textual meaning, in literature and in literary interpretation, is structured by repression and forgetting, by what the literary or critical text does not say as much as by what it does. All these claims are directly relevant to legal hermeneutics, and thus it is no surprise that legal theorists have recently been turning to literary theory for potential insight into the interpretation of law. This collection of essays is designed to represent the especially rich interactive that has taken place between legal and literary hermeneutics during the past ten years."
Author | : A.V. Dicey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 1985-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 134917968X |
A starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law, The Law of the Constitution elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the legislative sovereignty of Parliament, the rule of law, and the binding force of unwritten conventions.
Author | : Albert Venn Dicey |
Publisher | : London : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Albert Venn Dicey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2017-08-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781375468626 |
Author | : Mark Gimenez |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0748117296 |
John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five, handsome and unmarried. He teaches Constitutional Law, reduces senators to blithering fools on talk shows, and is often mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. But Book is also famous for something more unusual. He likes to take on lost causes and win. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from desperate Americans around the country seeking his help. Every now and then, one letter captures his attention and Book feels compelled to act. In the first of a thrilling new series from the author of international bestsellers The Colour of Law and Accused, Book investigates a murder set in the high-stakes world of fracking and corruption in deepest, darkest Texas.