The Opening of American Law
Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870-1970
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 November 2014
- ISBN 9780199331307
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 240x165x35 mm
- Weight 762 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Two Victorian Era movements affected American legal thought: Darwinian natural selection and marginalist economics. Darwinism emphasized instinct and random selection. Marginalism emphasized rational choice. Notwithstanding profound differences in the assumptions and methodologies of these movements, legal theory accommodated both.
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Two Victorian Era intellectual movements changed the course of American legal thought: Darwinian natural selection and marginalist economics. The two movements rested on fundamentally inconsistent premises. Darwinism emphasized instinct, random selection, and determinism. Marginalism emphasized rational choice. Legal theory managed to accommodate both, although to different degrees in different disciplines. The two movements also developed mutually exclusive scientific methodologies. Darwinism emphasizing external indicators of welfare such as productivity, education or health, while marginalists emphasized market choice. Historians have generally exaggerated the role of Darwinism in American legal thought, while understating the role of marginalist economics. This book explores these issues in several legal disciplines. One is Progressive Era movements for redistributive policies about taxation and public goods. Darwinian science also dominated the law of race relations, while criminal law reflected an inconsistent mixture of Darwinian and marginalist incentive-based theories. The common law, including family law, contract, property, and tort, moved from emphasis on correction of past harms to management of ongoing risk and relationship. A chapter on Legal Realism emphasizes the Realists' indebtedness to institutional economics, a movement that powerfully influenced American legal theory long after it fell out of favor with economists. Five chapters on the corporation, innovation and competition policy show how marginalist economics transformed business policy. The ironic exception was patent law, which developed in relative insulation from economic concerns about innovation policy. The book concludes with three chapters on public law, emphasizing the role of institutionalist economics in policy making during and after the New Deal. A lengthy epilogue then explores the variety of postwar attempts to reconstruct a defensible and more market-oriented rule of law after the decline of Legal Realism and the New Deal.
The main reason why I found The Opening of American Law fascinating and worth reading is that it clearly demonstrates the strength and resilience of classical political economy in affecting American law, even long after the approach had been challenged, and eventually displaced, by alternative theoretical paradigms.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I Human Nature and the Sources of Law
Chap. 1. Scarcity, Biology and the Rational Actor
Chap. 2. Natural Selection, Deterrence and Mental Defect
Chap. 3. The Science and Law of Race
Part II. Neoclassical Legal Thought
Chap. 4. Economics and Law in the Progressive Era
Chap. 5. Social Value, Taxation and Public Finance
Chap. 6. From Institutionalism to Legal Realism
Chap. 7. Recasting the Common Law: the Management of Risk and Relationship
Part III. The Neoclassical Firm and the Formation of Modern Business Policy
Chap. 8. The Revolution in Corporate Finance
Chap. 9. The Separation of Ownership and Control
Chap. 10. The Twisted Path to Innovation Policy
Chap. 11. Structuralism in Competition Policy
Chap. 12. Distribution and Vertical Control
Part IV. Neoclassical Public Law
Chap. 13. The Substantive Due Process Triumvirate: Health, Safety and Morals
Chap. 14. The Waning of Classical Labor Policy
Chap. 15. The Regulatory State and Federalism
Epilogue: The New Deal at Bay
