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Regulatory Rights
Larry Yackle
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Description for Regulatory Rights
Hardcover. Traversing a wide range of Supreme Court decisions that established crucial precedents about racial discrimination, the death penalty, and sexual freedom, this book contends that the rights we enjoy are neither more nor less than what the justices choose to make of them. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
We have often heard - with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings - that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines. In "Regulatory Rights", Larry Yackle sets out to convince readers that such arguments fundamentally misconceive both the work that justices do and the character of the American Constitution in whose name they do it. It matters who sits on the Supreme Court, he argues, precisely because justices do create individual constitutional rights. Traversing a wide range of Supreme Court decisions that established crucial precedents about racial discrimination, the death penalty, and sexual freedom, Yackle contends that the rights we enjoy are neither more nor less than what the justices choose to make of them. "Regulatory Rights" is a bracing read that will be hotly debated by all those interested in constitutional law and the judiciary.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226944715
SKU
V9780226944715
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99-15
About Larry Yackle
Larry Yackle is professor of law and the Basil Yanakakis Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He is the author of several books, including Reclaiming the Federal Courts and Reform and Regret.
Reviews for Regulatory Rights
"Regulatory Rights is a book of great erudition and insight. The results are radical, but if you want to disagree with Larry Yackle, you need to grapple with the persuasive power of his interpretation of individual-rights jurisprudence. Controversial, but an indispensable read, this book will become one of the benchmarks of serious thought about constitutional law." - H. Jefferson Powell, Duke University"