Law as a Means to an End : Threat to the Rule of Law
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Law in Context
ISBN-10
0521869528
ISBN-13
9780521869522
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2006
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
The AmericasLaw & societyLaw and society, sociology of law
Ksh 19,600.00
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Drawing upon legal history, legal theory, and legal sociology, this book presents an intellectual history of the US legal culture which elaborates on the various developments that have led to and structure the present worrisome legal-political situation.
The contemporary US legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law.
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