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Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, Henry Mcgee
Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee reviews Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, by Kenneth Culp Davis. Davis, suggesting both that we are a government of men as much as of laws and that discretion begins where law ends, sets out to determine how much unnecessary discretionary power can be contracted and how necessary discretionary power can be both confined and structured.
Roscoe Pound's Legacy: Engineering Liberty And Order, Henry Mcgee
Roscoe Pound's Legacy: Engineering Liberty And Order, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee presents Roscoe Pound’s legal legacy—the most distinguished career in American legal scholarship. McGee discusses Pound’s essential jurisprudence, his jural postulates and critical views, and Pound’s theory of interests—social, public, and individual. McGee also delves into Pound’s academic concern with social control and discretion in criminal justice .
Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee
Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee
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An agency is not an island entire of itself. It is one of the many rooms in the magnificent mansion of the law. The very subordination of the agency to judicial jurisdiction is intended to proclaim the premise that each agency is to be brought into harmony with the totality of the law; the law as it is found in the statute at hand, the statute book at large, the principles and conceptions of the "common law," and the ultimate guarantees associated with the Constitution.