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02361cam a22002654a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780521869522 (hardback) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng. |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
340.11 |
| Item number |
TAM-L |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Tamanaha, Brian Z. |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Law as a means to an end : |
| Sub Title |
threat to the rule of law / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Brian Z. Tamanaha. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Cambridge : |
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New York : |
| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication |
2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xii, 254p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Non-instrumental views of law -- Changing society and common law in the 19th century -- Nineteenth century legislation and legal profession -- Instrumentalism of the legal realists -- 20th century Supreme Court instrumentalism -- Instrumentalism in legal academia in 1970's -- Instrumentalism in theories of law -- Instrumentalism in the legal profession -- Instrumentalism of cause litigation -- Instrumentalism and the judiciary -- Instrumentalism in legislation and administration -- Collapse of higher law, deterioration of common good -- The threat to legality. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The contemporary US legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end - in a context of sharp disagreement over the social good. It traces the rise of the instrumental view of law in the course of the past two centuries, then demonstrates the pervasiveness of this view of law and its implications within the contemporary legal culture, and ends by showing the various ways in which seeing law in purely instrumental terms threatens to corrode the rule of law. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Rule of law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Philosophy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Legal positivism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Instrumentalism (Philosophy) |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006013845.html |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006013845-d.html |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2006013845-b.html |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |
