The Age of Foolishness
A Doubter's Guide to Constitutionalism in a Modern Democracy
Published on 30. June 2022
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-68053-787-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Age of Foolishness is a doubter's guide to current lawyerly thinking about all things related to constitutionalism in a democracy. This book offers a thorough-going skeptical critique of the views that dominate our legal caste, including in law schools and among judges, and place too much weight on judges to resolve important social policy disputes and too little on democratic politics. The author argues that politics matters in a way that our legal orthodoxy often downplays.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bethesda
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68053-787-1 (9781680537871)
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E-Book
06/2022
Academica Press
€38.49
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Person
James Allan is the Garrick Professor in Law at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has published in leading constitutional and legal philosophy law journals and writes for The Spectator, Australia, The Australian, Quadrant, Law & Liberty, The National Post, among others.