Judges and unjust laws :: common law constitutionalism and the foundations of judicial review /

With keen insight into the common law mind, Edlin argues that there are rich resources within the law for judges to ground their opposition to morally outrageous laws, and a legal obligation on them to overturn it, consequent on the general common law obligation to develop the law. Thus, seriously u...

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1. Verfasser: Edlin, Douglas E.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung:With keen insight into the common law mind, Edlin argues that there are rich resources within the law for judges to ground their opposition to morally outrageous laws, and a legal obligation on them to overturn it, consequent on the general common law obligation to develop the law. Thus, seriously unjust laws pose for common law judges a dilemma within the law, not just a moral challenge to the law, a conflict of obligations, not just a crisis of conscience. While rooted firmly in the history of common law jurisprudence, Edlin offers an entirely fresh perspective on an age-old jurisprudential conundrum.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
ISBN:9780472022953
0472022954

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