James R. Maxeiner

Failures of American Methods of Lawmaking in Historical and Comparative Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges the myths of common law's superiority over statute law using newly available historical sources and a comparative law analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781107198159
• ISBN-10: 1107198151
• Artikelnr.: 48688551

Autorenporträt

James R. Maxeiner is the Associate Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: of governments and laws
2. Common law is not an option
Part II. What Americans Sought: A Government of Laws, Not of Men: 3. America's exceptionalism in 1876: systematizing of laws
4. Founding a government of laws
5. Building a government of laws in the first century of the republic
Part III. What Americans Got: Deranged Laws: 6. A rule of lawyers: two centennials
7. From the gilded age to Google
8. Inviting comparison: a gift horse in two lands
Part IV. What Americans Can Do: Improve Legal Methods: 9. Systematizing and simplifying statutes
10. Making laws for a government of laws
11. Federalism and localism
12. Constitutional review
13. Applying laws
14. Appendix: place of foreign law in American legal scholarship
Suggestions for further reading
Index.