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.

Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Constraints and Challenges -- Legal Complexity -- Multi-Culturalism Redux -- Some Reflections on the Federalism Debate -- Institutions and Processes -- The Politics of Regulation -- When the Exception Becomes the Rule -- Law and Post-Privatization Regulatory Reform -- Against (and for) Madison -- Delegation and Democracy -- To the Chevron Station -- The Thickest Thicket -- Mass Torts -- Public Law Litigation and Social Reform -- Mapping the Limits of Law -- The Limits of Law