Limits Of Law: Essays On Democratic Governance

by Peter H. Schuck

Law is an increasingly pervasive force in our society. At the same time, however, the obstacles to law's effectiveness are also growing. In The Limits of Law, Yale law professor Peter H. Schuck draws on law, social science, and history to explore this momentous clash between law's compelling promise of ordered liberty and the realistic limits of its capacity to deliver on this promise.Schuck first discusses the constraints within which law must work?law's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813367581
• ISBN13: 9780813367583
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"