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P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 This page intentionally left blank ii P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 Law as a Means to an End ThecontemporaryU.S.legalcultureismarkedbyubiquitousbattlesamongvarious groupsattemptingtoseizecontrolofthelawandwielditagainstothersinpursuit of their particular agendas. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels. This book identifies the underlyingsourceofthesebattlesinthespreadoftheinstrumentalviewoflaw– theideathatlawispurelyameanstoanend–inacontextofsharpdisagreement overthesocialgood.Ittracestheriseoftheinstrumentalviewoflawinthecourseof thepasttwocenturies,thendemonstratesthepervasivenessofthisviewoflawand itsimplicationswithinthecontemporarylegalculture,andendsbyshowingthe variouswaysinwhichseeinglawinpurelyinstrumentaltermsthreatenstocorrode theruleoflaw. Brian Z. Tamanaha is the Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law. He delivered the inaugural Montesquieu Lecture(2004)attheUniversityofTilburg.HeistheauthorofOntheRuleofLaw (Cambridge2004),RealisticSocio-LegalTheory(1997),andAGeneralJurisprudence ofLawandSociety(2001),whichwontheHerbertJacobBookPrizein2001andthe inauguralDennisLeslieMahoneyPrizeinLegalTheory(2006)fortheoutstanding contemporaryworkinsociologicaljurisprudence.Hehaspublishedmanyarticles andistheAssociateEditorofLawandSocietyReview. i P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 ii P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 TheLawinContextSeries Editors:WilliamTwining(UniversityCollegeLondon) andChristopherMcCrudden(LincolnCollege,Oxford) Since1970,theLawinContextSerieshasbeenintheforefrontofthemovementto broadenthestudyoflaw.Ithasbeenavehicleforthepublicationofinnovativescholarly booksthattreatlawandlegalphenomenacriticallyintheirsocial,political,and economiccontextsfromavarietyofperspectivestobearonnewandexistingareasoflaw taughtinuniversities.Acontextualapproachinvolvestreatinglegalsubjectsbroadly, usingmaterialfromothersocialsciencesandfromanyotherdisciplinethathelpsto explaintheoperationinpracticeofthesubjectunderdiscussion.Itishopedthatthis orientationisatoncemorestimulatingandmorerealisticthanthebareexpositionof legalrules.Theseriesincludesoriginalbooksthathaveadifferentemphasisfrom traditionallegaltextbooks,whilemaintainingthesamehighstandardsofscholarship. Theyarewrittenprimarilyforundergraduateandgraduatestudentsoflawandofthe disciplines,butmostalsoappealtowiderreadership.Inthepast,mostbooksintheseries havefocusedonEnglishlaw,butrecentpublicationsincludebooksonEuropeanlaw, globalization,transnationallegalprocesses,andcomparativelaw. BooksintheSeries Anderson,Schum&Twining:AnalysisofEvidence Ashworth:SentencingandCriminalJustice Barton&Douglas:LawandParenthood Beecher-Monas:EvaluatingScientificEvidence:AnInterdisciplinaryFrameworkfor IntellectualDueProcess Bell:FrenchLegalCultures Bercusson:EuropeanLabourLaw Birkinshaw:EuropeanPublicLaw Birkinshaw:FreedomofInformation:TheLaw,thePracticeandtheIdeal Cane:Atiyah’sAccidents,CompensationandtheLaw Clarke&Kohler:PropertyLaw Collins:TheLawofContract CrantonScott&Black:ConsumersandtheLaw Davies:PerspectivesonLabourLaw DeSousaSantos:TowardaNewLegalCommonSense Diduck:Law’sFamilies Elworthy&Holder:EnvironmentalProtection:TextandMaterials Fortin:Children’sRightsandtheDevelopingLaw GloverThomas:ReconstructingMentalHealthLawandPolicy Gobert&Punch:RethinkingCorporateCrime Goodrich:LanguagesofLaw Harlow&Rawlings:LawandAdministration:TextandMaterials Harris:AnIntroductiontoLaw Harris:Remedies,ContractandTort Harvey:SeekingAsylumintheUK:ProblemsandProspects Hervey&McHale:HealthLawandtheEuropeanUnion Lacey&Wells:ReconstructingCriminalLaw Lewis:ChoiceandtheLegalOrder:RisingabovePolitics Likosky:Law,InfrastructureandHumanRights Likosky:TransnationalLegalProcesses Maughan&Webb:LawyeringSkillsandtheLegalProcess Moffat:TrustsLaw:TextandMaterials Norrie:Crime,ReasonandHistory O’Dair:LegalEthics Continuedaftertheindex iii P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 iv P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 Law as a Means to an End Threat to the Rule of Law Brian Z. Tamanaha v cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521869522 ©BrianZ.Tamanaha2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2006 isbn-13 978-0-511-24968-6eBook (EBL) isbn-10 0-511-24968-3 eBook (EBL) isbn-13 978-0-521-86952-2hardback isbn-10 0-521-86952-8 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-68967-0paperback isbn-10 0-521-68967-8 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 For LawrenceM.Friedman MarcGalanter MortyHorwitz WilliamTwining vii P1:KAE 0521869528pre CUFX046B/Tamanaha 0521869528 August21,2006 6:17 viii

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