Eric A. Posner

Broschiertes Buch

Executive Unbound

After the Madisonian Republic

Beschreibung

Legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule argue that the great complexity of the modern world produces a concentration of power, particularly in the White House. The authors chart the rise of executive authority and they look at the legislation which was designed to limit the presidency, but failed to do so. Political, cultural and social restraints, they argue, have been more effective in preventing dictatorship than any law. Indeed, the executive-centered state tends to generate political checks that substitute for the legal checks of the constitution.

Autor

Eric A. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and is the author of The Perils of Global Legalism, Terror in the Balance (written with Vermeule), and Climate Change Justice, among other books. Adrian Vermeule is John H. Watson Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and is the author of Law and the Limits of Reason, Mechanisms of Democracy, and Judging Under Uncertainty, and is the co-author with Posner of Terror in the Balance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780199934034
• ISBN-10: 0199934037
• Artikelnr.: 36198302