Title: After the rights revolution : reconceiving the regulatory state /
Authors: Sunstein, Cass R.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Social legislation United States; Industrial laws and legislation United States.; Administrative law United States.
Contents: Introduction -- Regulation and interpretation -- The anarchronistic legal culture -- 1. Why regulation? -- A historical overview -- Public and private ordering -- 2. The functions of regulatory statutes -- Market failures -- Public-interested redistribution -- Collective desires and aspirations -- Diverse experiences and preference formation -- Social subordination -- Endogenous preferences -- Irreversibility, future generations, animals, and nature -- Interest-group transfers and "rent-seeking" -- The problem of categorization -- 3. How regulation fails -- Failures in the original statute -- Implementation failure -- Linking statutory function to statutory failure -- Paradoxes of the regulatory state -- and reform -- 4. Courts, interpretation, and norms -- Flawed approaches to statutory interpretation -- Interpretive principles -- An alternative method -- 5. Interpretive principles for the regulatory state -- The principles -- Priority and harmonization -- Fissures in the interpretive community -- -- The postcanonical legal universe -- 6. Applications, the new deal, and statutory construction -- Particulars -- The new deal and statutory construction -- Conclusion -- The Constitution and the Regulatory State -- and its reform -- Interpreting the Regulatory State -- Appendix A. Interpretive principles -- Appendix B. Selected regulations in terms of cost per life saved -- Appendix C. The growth of administrative government -- Notes -- Index