The System of the Constitution

Adrian Vermeule is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author of Mechanisms of Democracy (OUP 2007) and Law and the Limits of Reason (OUP 2008), and co-author with Eric Posner of Terror in the Balance (OUP 2006) and The Executive Unbound (OUP 2011).

• Introduction: A System of Systems ; 1. Systemic Analysis ; 2. The Structural Constitution ; 3. Dilemmas of the Invisible Hand ; 4. Systemic Feedback Through Selection ; 5. Constitutional Judging ; Conclusion: Two Degrees of Aggregation

"In this iconoclastic and provocative book, Adrian Vermeule brings a sharp understanding of institutional dynamics and processes to bear on central issues in constitutional analysis. In doing so he unsettles much received wisdom and shows how many arguments in constitutional theory have relied on static or fallacious models of how actors respond in ongoing constitutional systems. This is clarifying and important work at the intersection of political science andlaw, and deserves to be widely read in both fields."--Jacob T. Levy, McGill University