Document Type

Chapter of Book

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

jurisprudence, courts

Abstract

This is my contribution to a festscrift in honor of Professor Don Wallace on his retirement from the Georgetown University School of Law. My essay points out the problems and dangers of the increasing delegation to international and domestic courts, in broad and vague value-laden language, the responsibility of making basic moral and policy decisions for society. It saddles courts with a task that they are not particularly suited to perform and it is certainly not the way a democratic society should function.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Jurisprudence, Courts, Rule of law

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