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Desperately Seeking Certainty

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Description for Desperately Seeking Certainty Paperback. Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 598.
Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the right and the left, prominent legal scholars normally try to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea, Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multifaceted common law methods already used by the Court provide a far better means of reaching ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226238098
SKU
V9780226238098
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About Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A. Farber is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law, Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law, and associate dean for research and development at the University of Minnesota. Suzanna Sherry is the Cal Turner Professor of Law and Leadership at Vanderbilt University. Each is the author of numerous books.

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