Law & Leviathan : redeeming the administrative state
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
342.66/SUNSTEIN,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020
©2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION
188 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674247536, 0674247531, 9780674247536
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction : "Long continued and hard fought contentions" -- The new Coke -- Law's morality, 1 : rules and discretion -- Law's morality, 2 : consistency and reliance -- Law's morality, 3 : limits, tradeoffs and the judicial role -- Surrogate safeguards in action -- Final words
"Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats-the "deep state." Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to calm those fears by proposing a moral regime to ensure that government rulemakers behave transparently and don't abuse their authority. The administrative state may be a Leviathan, but it can be a principled one"--