Academic

Walen on Bellamy on Judicial Review

By Lawrence Solum

Alec D. Walen (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy) has posted Judicial Review in Review: A Four-Part Defense of Legal Constitutionalism - A Review Essay on Political Constitutionalism, by Richard Bellamy (I*CON, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 329-354) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

This review focuses on the powerful critique of judicial review published in 2007 by Richard Bellamy. It responds to his central theses, drawing in significant part from the work of Mattias Kumm and, at the same time, offering a novel defense of constitutionalism and judicial review. This defense argues that certain of the costs of judicial review are worth bearing in order to keep alive the lessons of history embodied in constitutions, lest future generations forget history and, thereby, prove doomed to repeat it.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).