Law in Context: Law as a Means to an End

Name: Law in Context: Law as a Means to an End
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521689670
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Author: Brian Z. Tamanaha
ISBN: 9780521689670

By Brian Z. Tamanaha

Cambridge University Press October 2006

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ISBN-13: 9780521689670
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2006
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The contemporary U.S. legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law.

Provides a unique historical and contemporary account of the spread and entrenchment of the idea that law is a means to an end
Draws upon legal history, legal theory, and legal sociology
Provides an overview of the U.S. legal culture - past, present, and future

Contents:: Introduction; Part I.; The Spread of Legal Instrumentalism:; 1. Non-instrumental views of law; 2. Changing society and common law in the nineteenth century; 3. Nineteenth century legislation and legal profession; 4. Instrumentalism of the legal realists; 5. Twentieth century Supreme Court instrumentalism; Part II.; Contemporary Legal Instrumentalism:; 6. Instrumentalism in legal academia in the 1970s; 7. Instrumentalism in theories of law; 8. Instrumentalism in the legal profession; 9. Instrumentalism of cause litigation; 10. Instrumentalism and the judiciary; 11. Instrumentalism in legislation and administration; Part III.; Corroding the Rule of Law:; 12. Collapse of higher law, deterioration of common good; 13. The threat to legality; Epilogue.