The law as it could be
By: Owen Fiss.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History -- 20th century; Constitutional history -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: The forms of justice; title: The social and political foundations of adjudication; title: The right degree of independence; title: The bureaucratization of the judiciary; title: Against settlement; title: The allure of individualism; title: The political theory of the class action; title: The awkwardness of the criminal law; title: Objectivity and interpretation; title: Judging as a practice; title: The death of law?; title: Reason vs. passion; title: The irrepressibility of reason; title: Bush v. Gore and the question of legitimacy.