Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State

by Adrian Vermeule

Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.

In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to believe that administrators should be granted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971442
• ISBN13: 9780674971448
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"