Peter H. Schuck is Simeon E. Baldwin Professor at Yale Law School. He is the author or editor of many books and articles including Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity ( with Rogers M. Smith), Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in the U.S. and Germany, Suing Government: Citizen Remedies for Official Wrongs, Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts, Foundations of Administrative Law, and Tort Law and the Public Interest: Competition, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare.

Part I Constraints and Challenges, 1 Legal Complexity: Some Causes, Consequences, and Cures, 2 Multi-Culturalism Redux: Science, Law, and Politics, 3 Some Reflections on the Federalism Debate, Part II Institutions and Processes, 4 The Politics of Regulation, 5 When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Regulatory Equity and the Formulation of Energy Policy Through an Exceptions Process, 6 Law and Post-Privatization Regulatory Reform: Perspectives from the U.S. Experience, 7 Against (and for) Madison: An Essay in Praise of Factions, 8 Delegation and Democracy: Comments on David Schoenbrod, 9 To the Chevron Station: An Empirical Study of Federal Administrative Law, 10 The Thickest Thicket: Partisan Gerrymandering and Judicial Regulation of Politics, 11 Mass Torts: An Institutional Evolutionist Perspective, 12 Public Law Litigation and Social Reform, Part Ill Mapping the Limits of Law, 13 The Limits of Law

This book discusses the constraints within which law must work and considers the ways law uses regulatory, legislative, and adjudicatory processes to influence social behavior, drawing together some general lessons about law's limits and possibilities for improving democratic governance.