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The Force Of Law: The Role Of Coercion In Legal Norms, Ekow N. Yankah

University of Richmond Law Review

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Faith In The Rule Of Law, Marc O. Degirolami

Faculty Publications

This is an essay on Brian Z. Tamanaha's Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law (2006).

For all but the most unflinching consequentialist, "instrumentalism" tends to draw mixed reviews. So it does from Brian Tamanaha. His book, Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law, documents with measured diffidence the ascendancy and current reign of "legal instrumentalism," so entrenched an understanding of law that it is "taken for granted in the United States, almost a part of the air we breathe." Professor Tamanaha shows that in our legal theorizing, …

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Gunneflo - Demokrati Och Lagprövning: Om Rättfärdigandet Av En Positiv Respektive Negativ Inställning Till Lagprövning [Democracy And Judicial Review: On The Justicfication Of A Positive And A Negative Attitude To Judicial Review In A Democracy], Markus Gunneflo

Markus Gunneflo

This article focuses on the justification of a positive and a negative attitude respectively towards judicial review in a democracy. The analysis is performed by analyzing texts by four American theorists theorists with different opinions on the subject: Robert Dahl, Jeremy Waldron, Erwin Chemerinsky and Ronald Dworkin. The study shows that there are significant disagreements concerning democratic values between those who take a positive and those who take a negative attitude to judicial review inter alia on the understanding of democracy in terms of process or substance, rule by the broad mass of the people or rule by an elite, …