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The Law Of The Jubilee In Modern Perspective, Bruce Ledewitz
The Law Of The Jubilee In Modern Perspective, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
Law And The Coming Environmental Catastrophe, Bruce Ledewitz
Law And The Coming Environmental Catastrophe, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
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Accountability For Past Abuses, Juan E. Mendez
Accountability For Past Abuses, Juan E. Mendez
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Judicial Restraint In The Administrative State: Beyond The Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Matthew D. Adler
Judicial Restraint In The Administrative State: Beyond The Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Arguments for judicial restraint point to some kind of judicial deficit (such as a democratic or an epistemic deficit) as grounds for limiting judicial review. ("Judicial review" is used in this Article to mean, essentially, the judicial invalidation of statutes, rules, orders and actions in virtue of the Bill of Rights, or similar unwritten criteria.). The most influential argument for judicial restraint has been the Countermajoritarian Difficulty. This is a legislature-centered argument: one that points to features of *legislatures*, as grounds for courts to refrain from invalidating *statutes*. This Article seeks to recast scholarly debate about judicial restraint, and to …
Hope And Despair For A New South Africa: The Limits Of Rights Discourse, Makau Wa Mutua
Hope And Despair For A New South Africa: The Limits Of Rights Discourse, Makau Wa Mutua
Journal Articles
This article is a critique of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. It explores the assumptions employed by the African National Congress and the international community to construct a post-apartheid society. It argues that the reliance on the law as the key medium for economic, social, and political change was insufficient to transform the legacy of apartheid. Instead, the piece contends that apartheid was privatized and its beneficiaries protected under the new dispensation. It makes the argument that the lot of the black majority is unlikely to be changed such gradualist approach to social change.