Desperately seeking certainty: the misguided quest for constitutional foundations
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Main Author: Farber, Daniel A. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-202) and index
Preface; 1. Of Law and Latkes; 2. In the Beginning:Robert Bork and Other Originalists; 3. The Formalist Crusade of Antonin Scalia; 4. Richard Epstein and the Incredible Shrinking Government; 5. Akhil Amar and the People's Court; 6. Bruce Ackerman's Magic Amendment Machine; 7. Ronald Dworkin and the City on the Hill; 8. Dethroning Grand Theory; Appendix; Notes; Index
Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multif
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 208 pages)
ISBN:0226238105
9780226238104

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