Transitions
Subtitle: legal change, legal meanings
By: edited by Austin Sarat
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780817356903; 9780817385934
Subjects: Political aspects; Judicial review; Transitional justice; Administration of Justice; Law; Rule of law
Description: "Illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together, the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of U.S. law during moments of political change and explore what we can learn about law by examining its role and its use in times of transition. Whether by an abrupt shift in regime or an orderly progression from one government to the next, political change often calls into question the stability and versatility of the law, making it appear temporarily absent or in suspension. What challenges to the law arise at these times? To what extent do transitional periods foster ingenuity and resourcefulness, and how might they precipitate crises in legal authority? What do moments of legal change mean for law itself, and how do legal institutions bring about and respond to times of transition in legal arrangements? Transitions begins the scholarly exploration of these questions that have largely been neglected"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Midnight deregulation / Jack M. Beermann; title: Commentary : judicial review of midnight deregulation / Heather Elliott; title: Midnight rulemaking and congress / Nina Mendelson; title: Commentary : is there a silver lining to midnight mischief? / William L. Andreen; title: Reconstructing the Republic : the great transition of the 1860s / Akhil Reed Amar, Lindsey Ohlsson Worth, and Joshua Alexander Geltzer; title: Commentary : ordinary and extraordinary transitions / Paul Horwitz; title: Transitional disclosures : what transitional justice reveals about "law" / David Gray; title: Commentary : power, paradigms, and legal prescriptions : "the rule of law" as a necessary but not sufficient condition for transitional justice / Meredith Render; title: Global transitions, new perspectives on legality, and judicial review / Ruti Teitel; title: Commentary : comment on professor Ruti Teitel's "global transitions, new perspectives on legality and judicial review" /  Daniel H. Joyner, contributors.