Word: dershowitz
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...last section, and the book on the whole, is solid but not extraordinary. Dershowitz crafted the book to be agreeable but not risky, and as a result, “Preemption” fails to make any really lasting statements...
...Dershowitz is conscious of how fickle people are about preemption and how slippery the concept is itself...
With warnings against treating preemption as a “yes or no, black or white, legal or illegal” and repeated assertions that a jurisprudence cannot be created flawlessly in one try, Dershowitz is resigned to treating this work not as a landmark treatise on preemption but as a first building block...
...progressive tone to “Preemption” and its recognition that it is part of an evolving literature on the issue proves an asset. Dershowitz appropriately situates himself as a guide, not an authority...
...book’s lucid and plain language matches its fundamental nature as a guidebook and allows Dershowitz to walk the reader through his own thoughts on preemptive policy in a methodical, unpretentious...