Product Description: Human reason is limited. What are the consequences of this fact for the contested lawmaking claims between courts, legislatures and the executive branch? In light of the limits of reason, how should legal institutions be designed? In Law and the Limits of Reason, Adrian Vermeule criticizes the view that the limits of reason counsel in favor of judicial lawmaking in the style of the common law...read more

Product Description: A constitutional order is a system of systems. It is an aggregate of interacting institutions, which are themselves aggregates of interacting individuals. In The System of the Constitution, Adrian Vermeule analyzes constitutionalism through the lens of systems theory, originally developed in biology, computer science, political science and other disciplines...read more

Product Description: Outstanding authorship, rich materials, and systematic coverage are the hallmarks of Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy, now in its seventh edition. Administrative procedure is examined in light of substantive policy debates in areas such as health, safety, environmental protection, and economic regulation...read more

Product Description: Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever...read more

Product Description: To ensure that you have the most up-to-date and complete materials for your Administrative Law class, be sure to use Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: 2009-2010 Supplement. New cases include: Entergy Corp...read more

Product Description: When you consider casebooks for your next administrative law course, make sure you examine this excellent revision from an author team of unmatched expertise. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND REGULATORY POLICY: Problems, Text, and Cases, Sixth Edition, offers a challenging examination of doctrine and policy that has been perfected through years of classroom use...read more

Product Description: What institutional arrangements should a well-functioning constitutional democracy have? Most of the relevant literatures in law, political science, political theory, and economics address this question by discussing institutional design writ large...read more

Product Description: In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making extensive powers available to the executive as warranted...read more

Product Description: How should judges, in America and elsewhere, interpret statutes and the Constitution? Previous work on these fundamental questions has typically started from abstract views about the nature of democracy or constitutionalism, or the nature of legal language, or the essence of the rule of law...read more