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Calabresi Guido <1932-> |
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A common law for the age of statutes / / Guido Calabresi |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1982 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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The Oliver Wendell Holmes lectures ; ; 1977 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Statutes - United States |
Common law - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.Table of Contents: 1. Choking on Statutes 2. The Flight to the Constitution and to Equal Protection Clauses 3. The Passive Virtues 4. Interpretation 5. The New Deal Response: Administrative Agencies 6. Legislative Responses 7. Structural Responses 8. A New Approach: Antecedents and Roots 9. The Doctrine: A Question of Legitimacy 10. The Doctrine: Limits and Guidelines 11. The Doctrine: Techniques and |
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