Law and the limits of reason
By: Adrian Vermeule.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780195383768
Subjects: Law -- Methodology; Law -- United States -- Methodology
Description: Vermeule denies the view that the limits of reason counsel in favour of judges making 'living' constitutional law in the style of the common law. Instead, he proposes and defends a 'codified constitution' - a regime in which legislatures have the primary authority to develop constitutional law over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The limits of reason in legal theory; title: Many-minds arguments; title: The constitutional common law : information aggregation; title: The constitutional common law : evolution; title: Justices and company; title: Unintended consequences and constitutional amendments; title: From the common-law constitution to the codified constitution.