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Symposium on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s “Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State”

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The Limitations of Law and Leviathan, by Kristin E. Hickman

*This is the tenth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. In Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule offer what must be described as a fairly rosy account of […]

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Defensive Crouch Administrativism, by Jonathan H. Adler

*This is the ninth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. The administrative state is under siege. In Law & Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, Professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule attempt a rescue. In […]

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What Can Philosophy Teach Us About Administrative Law?, by Aditya Bamzai

*This is the eighth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. Law and Leviathan is a work that seeks to connect abstract principles of political philosophy with concrete developments in administrative law doctrine.  I find […]

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Applied Jurisprudence?, by Matthew Lewans

*This is the seventh post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, the bloody Civil War between Royalists and Parliamentarians had just concluded and the need to restore legal […]

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The Procedural Morality of Administrative Law—To the End of the Common Good?, by Jennifer Mascott

*This is the sixth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. Adrian Vermeule and Cass Sunstein’s recent feat in Law & Leviathan is thought-provoking and builds on their past prolific contributions to administrative law.  The […]

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The APA, Due Process, and the Limits of Textualist Positivism, by Emily S. Bremer

*This is the fifth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. In their book, Law and Leviathan, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to “recover and renew the force” of a collection of natural or […]

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I’m Still Worried: A Post on Law and Leviathan, by Nicholas Bagley

*This is the fourth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. Law and Leviathan is a comforting read. The modern regulatory state, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule tell us, is not in tension with the […]

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A Fuller Picture of Internal Morality, by Mila Sohoni

*This is the third post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. In Law and Leviathan, an expertly written account of contemporary administrative law, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule show us how to fight a theory […]

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Putting Lon Fuller to Work in the Trenches, by Kevin M. Stack

*This is the second post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. At the heart of Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s insightful and important book, Law and the Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, is a claim […]

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Law & Leviathan: The Best Defense?, by Ronald M. Levin

*This is the first post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. In their recent book Law & Leviathan, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule unveil a novel and provocative approach to legitimating the modern administrative state.  […]

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Symposium Introduction: Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State

Starting today, for the next two weeks, the Notice and Comment blog will run a symposium on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. (2020: Harvard University Press.) The posts will be available here. The book is a concise and incisive defense of the internal legal morality of […]