{"title":"Adrian Vermeule","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrian Vermeule's work explores profound questions at the intersection of law, politics, and philosophy. His books examine the principles underlying constitutionalism and the nature of legal authority, challenging contemporary assumptions with rigorous analysis and thoughtful argumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in political theory and the foundations of legal systems will find Vermeule’s writings both provocative and enlightening. His collection is essential for those seeking a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between law and governance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"law-and-leviathan-by-cass-r-sunstein-9780674278691","title":"Law and Leviathan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Scribes Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as \"the deep state.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Has something to offer both critics and supporters a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate over the constitutionality of the modern state.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e- Review of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"At no time more than the present, a defense of expertise-based governance and administration is sorely needed, and this book provides it with gusto.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n- Frederick Schauer, author of \u003cem\u003eThinking Like a Lawyer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As brilliantly imaginative as it is urgently timely. By identifying an inner morality of administrative law, Sunstein and Vermeule refute the most serious legal and political attacks on the administrative state since the New Deal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n- Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Harvard Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? America has long been divided over these questions, but the debate has recently taken on more urgency and spilled into the streets. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed so long as public officials are constrained by morality and guided by stable rules. \u003cem\u003eLaw and Leviathan\u003c\/em\u003e elaborates a number of key principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials should make clear rules, ensure transparency, and never abuse retroactivity, so that current rules are not under constant threat of change. They should make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. 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Is it time to look for an alternative?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as \"a reasoned ordering to the common good.\" In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of \u003cem\u003eCommon Good Constitutionalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462720372972,"sku":"9781509548873","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509548873-common-good-constitutionalism.jpg?v=1775022176"},{"product_id":"laws-abnegation-by-adrian-vermeule-9780674971448","title":"Law’s Abnegation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRonald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to believe that administrators should be granted broad leeway to set policy, determine facts, interpret ambiguous statutes, and even define the boundaries of their own jurisdiction. Agencies have greater democratic legitimacy and technical competence to confront many issues than lawyers and judges do. 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