James R. Maxeiner

Failures of American Methods of Lawmaking in Historical and Comparative Perspectives (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying, common law on them. Maxeiner offers the cure for common law, in the form of sensible statute law. Building on this historical evidence, Maxeiner shows how rule-making in civil law jurisdictions in other countries makes for a far more equitable legal system. Sensible statute laws fit together: one statute governs, as opposed to several laws that even lawyers have trouble disentangling. In a statute law system, lawmakers make laws for the common good in sensible procedures, and judges apply sensible laws and do not make them. This book shows how such a system works in Germany and how it would be a solution for the American legal system as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108187428
• Artikelnr.: 50923649

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.