A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial–legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.
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A Common Law for the Age of Statutes
The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial–legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.
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A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

by Guido Calabresi
A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

by Guido Calabresi

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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial–legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674146051
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1985
Series: Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures , #8
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Choking on Statutes

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