Offers a comprehensive overview of landmark Supreme Court rulings in the years since "Roe v. Wade", discussing each case's background and their impact on American law and society.
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"Great cases like hard cases make bad law," declared Justice Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their nationa…
Profiles a watershed year (2002-2003) in the life of the U.S. Supreme Court, with contributions by journalists and Court advocates that discuss critical rulings on gay rights, affirmative action, hate speech, federal-state relations, and criminal law.
The United States Supreme Court s 2002 03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist the Court that helped decide the 2000 presidential election and struck down thirty-one federal statutes since 1995 is…
Presents the argument that the decisions of justices can be explained as strategic behavior and not based merely on their own political preferences.
Legitimacy and judicial authority -- Constitutional meaning : original public meaning -- Constitutional meaning : varieties of history that matter -- Law in the Supreme Court : jurisprudential foundations -- Constitutional constraints -- Constitutional theory and its relation to…
"A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation. In the political turmoil that convulsed America after George Washington's death, the surviving Founding Fathers went …
"A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation. In the political turmoil that convulsed America after George Washington's death, the surviving Founding Fathers went …
