Strauber Neglected Policies

Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8426-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Offers a critique of the political goals of legal scholars, seeking to expose the extent to which both jurisprudence and political theory are subject to “an ideology of involvement” that falsely assumes a direct relation between scholarly opin

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strauber, Ira L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

1. The Purposes of an Interpretive Community

2. Formalisms: An Efficacious Enemy of Politically Sufficient Commentary

3. Skepticism and Neglected Politics

Part II

4. Formalisms: Facets of Political Power and Neglected Policies

5. The Internet: Distorted Ideals and Practices

6. Agnostic Skepticism about Radical Rejectionism

7. Agnosticism, Federalism, and Constitutionalism

8. A Middle Course on Reform

9. Ordered Liberty and Political Morality

Part III

10. Deeper Skepticism

11. Qualified Solace in the Law’s Formalisms

12. Qualified Solace in Agnosticism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ira L. Strauber is Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College.