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Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review
University of Michigan Press 2010 |

Douglas E. Edlin

PAGES 336 |

ISBN: 0472116622 |

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0472034154"With keen insight into the common law mind, Edlin argues that there are rich resources within the law for judges to ground their opposition to morally outrageous laws, and a legal obligation on them to overturn it, consequent on the general common law obligation to develop the law. Thus, seriously unjust laws pose for common law judges a dilemma within the law, not just a moral challenge to the law, a conflict of obligations, not just a crisis of conscience. While rooted firmly in the history of common law jurisprudence, Edlin offers an entirely fresh perspective on an age-old jurisprudential conundrum. Edlin's case for his thesis is compelling."...
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