On Coming To Law:

Though it remains devoted to introducing readers to the point, processes and structure of law in liberal democratic states, this second and expanded edition of On Coming to Law aims to disclose more directly the source of the institutional character of our law and to confront readers more starkly with both the founding and legitimizing point of our law and the burdens which that point imposes upon the legal community — judges, academic and practicing lawyers, and law students alike. In so doing, the second edition seeks to characterize more fully the promise and perils of law and to advance in a more nuanced fashion the Western Legal Tradition and the Rule of Law as cultural practices that alone make good the promise of limited government and individual and social liberty and alone avoid the perils of immodest, ideologically-driven, and imperialist government. The structure of the book flows from this premise:

New in This Edition

* Chapter 6 “Founding our Law” — takes a new approach at explaining what law is, how it is founded, its problems, how to limit law, the limits of government and describing and interpreting the Western Legal Tradition
* Prologue — reviews the aims, goals and desires of legal education
* Epilogue entitled “the Decline of Law” — exposes the challenges that face our law challenges those who take up the law to aid in its recuperation