{"product_id":"9780674029156","title":"A Common Law for the Age of Statutes","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1. Choking on Statutes\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Flight to the Constitution and to Equal Protection Clauses\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Passive Virtues\u003cbr\u003e 4. Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The New Deal Response: Administrative Agencies\u003cbr\u003e 6. Legislative Responses\u003cbr\u003e 7. Structural Responses\u003cbr\u003e 8. A New Approach: Antecedents and Roots\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Doctrine: A Question of Legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Doctrine: Limits and Guidelines\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Doctrine: Techniques and Feasibility\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Role of Courts in an Age of Statutes\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Dangers of the Doctrine\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Uses and Abuses of Subterfuge\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Choice for Candor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Table of Cases\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003eThis is a genuinely original and thoughtful book, one of the few in the jurisprudential genre that is both dearly written and devoid of cliché. It addresses current social and legal issues from an engagingly fresh, nonpolemical, and erudite perspective.\u003cbr\u003e--American Bar Association Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003eCalabresi has brought his ample juristic talents to bear on a foundational problem of the legal and democratic process...in its quality, timeliness and provocativeness [this book] is likely to stand alongside the seminal works of Ronald Dworkin and Grant Gilmore.\u003cbr\u003e--Columbia Law Review","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125596045552,"sku":"9780674029156","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674029156_p0.jpg?v=1769845361","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674029156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}