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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons. In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to believe that administrators should be granted broad leeway to set policy, determine facts, interpret ambiguous statutes, and even define the boundaries of their own jurisdiction. Agencies have greater democratic legitimacy and technical competence to confront many issues than lawyers and judges do. And as the questions confronting the state involving climate change, terrorism, and biotechnology (to name a few) have become ever more complex, legal logic increasingly indicates that abnegation is the wisest course of action"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The abnegation of law's empire -- The legality of administrative law -- Separation of powers without idolatry -- Deference and due process -- Rationally arbitrary decisions -- Thin rationality review -- Appendix to Chapter 5 -- How law empowers nonlawyers -- Conclusion : Law on the margin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Judicial review of administrative acts -- United States.
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Judicial review of administrative acts. |
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United States. |
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Administrative discretion -- United States.
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Administrative discretion. |
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Administrative agencies -- United States.
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Administrative agencies. |
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Administrative law -- United States.
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Administrative law. |
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Administrative procedure -- United States.
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Administrative procedure. |
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Rule of law -- United States.
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Rule of law. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vermeule, Adrian, 1968- Law's abnegation. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016 9780674971448 (DLC) 2016015023 (OCoLC)946975321 |
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9780674974739 (electronic book) |
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0674974735 (electronic book) |
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9780674971448 |
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0674971442 |
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