A Common Law for the Age of Statutes |
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| Author:
| Calabresi, Guido |
| Series title: | Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-14605-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1985 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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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 to seriously consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts enlarge the common law and decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.
The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country to seriously consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts enlarge the common law and decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.