{"product_id":"failures-of-american-methods-of-lawmaking-in-historical-and-comparative-perspectives-hardback-9781107198159","title":"Failures of American Methods of Lawmaking in Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Hardback) 9781107198159","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFailures of American Methods of Lawmaking in Historical and Comparative Perspectives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenges the myths of common law's superiority over statute law using newly available historical sources and a comparative law analysis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames R. Maxeiner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107198159, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying, common law on them. Maxeiner offers the cure for common law, in the form of sensible statute law. Building on this historical evidence, Maxeiner shows how rule-making in civil law jurisdictions in other countries makes for a far more equitable legal system. Sensible statute laws fit together: one statute governs, as opposed to several laws that even lawyers have trouble disentangling. In a statute law system, lawmakers make laws for the common good in sensible procedures, and judges apply sensible laws and do not make them. This book shows how such a system works in Germany and how it would be a solution for the American legal system as well.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: of governments and laws\u003cbr\u003e 2. Common law is not an option\u003cbr\u003e Part II. What Americans Sought: A Government of Laws, Not of Men: 3. America's exceptionalism in 1876: systematizing of laws\u003cbr\u003e 4. Founding a government of laws\u003cbr\u003e 5. Building a government of laws in the first century of the republic\u003cbr\u003e Part III. What Americans Got: Deranged Laws: 6. A rule of lawyers: two centennials\u003cbr\u003e 7. From the gilded age to Google\u003cbr\u003e 8. Inviting comparison: a gift horse in two lands\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. What Americans Can Do: Improve Legal Methods: 9. Systematizing and simplifying statutes\u003cbr\u003e 10. Making laws for a government of laws\u003cbr\u003e 11. Federalism and localism\u003cbr\u003e 12. Constitutional review\u003cbr\u003e 13. Applying laws\u003cbr\u003e 14. Appendix: place of foreign law in American legal scholarship\u003cbr\u003e Suggestions for further reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Legal system: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Legal system: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Legal%20system:%20general%20%5BLNA%5D%22\"\u003eLNA\u003c\/a\u003e], Jurisprudence \u0026amp; philosophy of law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Jurisprudence \u0026amp; philosophy of law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Jurisprudence%20\u0026amp;%20philosophy%20of%20law%20%5BLAB%5D%22\"\u003eLAB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265672499480,"sku":"9781107198159","price":94.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107198159i.jpg?v=1692025546","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/failures-of-american-methods-of-lawmaking-in-historical-and-comparative-perspectives-hardback-9781107198159","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}