Law's allure
Subtitle: how law shapes, constrains, saves, and kills politics
By: Gordon Silverstein.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521896474; 9780521721080
Subjects: Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Judicial power -- United States; Justice, Administration of -- Political aspects -- United States; Law -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law's allure : motives, incentives, patterns, and process; title: Why now? the expansion and acceleration of law's allure; title: Law is different : a theory of precedent; title: Law's allure : patterns, process and cautionary tales; title: Poverty and abortion : the risks and rewards of a judicial strategy; title: Environmental regulation : a constructive pattern; title: Campaign finance : a de-constructive pattern; title: The special prosecutor, budget control, and line item vetoes : the court says yes and no; title: When the court is reluctant to intervene : war, emergencies, and foreign policy; title: Law's allure : costs and consequences; title: Tobacco : how law saves and kills politics; title: The promise and peril of law's allure.