num_pages: 332
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.
language: English
title: A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
titlecomplete: A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures)
genres: Law
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Harvard University Press