TY - GEN T1 - Law's abnegation : from law's empire to the administrative state A1 - Vermeule, Adrian, 1968- LA - English PP - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn962753105 AB - "Ronald 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. In 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. And as the questions confronting the state involving climate change, terrorism, and biotechnology (to name a few) have become ever more complex, legal logic increasingly indicates that abnegation is the wisest course of action"-- OP - 254 CN - KF5425 .V47 2016eb SN - 9780674974739 SN - 0674974735 SN - 9780674971448 SN - 0674971442 KW - Judicial review of administrative acts : United States. KW - Administrative discretion : United States. KW - Administrative agencies : United States. KW - Administrative law : United States. KW - Administrative procedure : United States. KW - Rule of law : United States. KW - Contrôle juridictionnel de l'administration : États-Unis. KW - Pouvoir discrétionnaire (Droit administratif) : États-Unis. KW - Règle de droit : États-Unis. KW - LAW : Constitutional. KW - LAW : Public. KW - LAW : Legal History. KW - Administrative agencies KW - Administrative discretion KW - Administrative law KW - Administrative procedure KW - Judicial review of administrative acts KW - Rule of law KW - United States ER -