Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

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Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Baby Ninth Amendments

How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters

By Anthony B. Sanders
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Legal History

How states have adapted and used "Baby Ninth" Amendments to protect individual liberties

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

By Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, American Studies, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

Curating Community

Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

By Stacy Douglas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reconsiders complex questions about how we imagine ourselves and our political communities

 

The Chief Justice

Appointment and Influence

By Artemus Ward & David J. Danelski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Judicial Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Scholars use the most advanced methods in judicial studies to examine the role of Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Common Law Judging

Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law

By Douglas E. Edlin
Subjects: Political Science, Judicial Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Law and Society

Moving beyond the subjectivity-objectivity debate, Edlin presents a case for intersubjectivity

Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate

Reconsidering the Charade

By Dion Farganis & Justin Wedeking
Subjects: Political Science, Judicial Politics, American Politics, Political Methodology, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

How much do Supreme Court nominees reveal at their confirmation hearings, and how do their answers affect senators' votes?

Mrs. Shipley's Ghost

The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists

By Jeffrey Kahn
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Legal History, Law and Society

An engaging exploration of the legal and policy questions surrounding U.S. national security and international travel

Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

A Deliberate Dialogue

By Ryan C. Black, Timothy R. B. Johnson, and Justin Wedeking
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics

Oral arguments are a key aspect of the Supreme Court's decision-making process

The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court

By Christina Rivers
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, American Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, African American Studies

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus disagree over how best to protect minority voting rights

Brandishing the First Amendment

Commercial Expression in America

By Tamara Piety
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Judicial Politics

How the First Amendment has been aggressively and inappropriately expanded by commercial entities

The Supreme Court and the NCAA

The Case for Less Commercialism and More Due Process in College Sports

By Brian Porto
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics, Sports, Education, Higher Education

Porto identifies the Court’s role in shaping college sports and advances a prescription for reform

Federalism

Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

By Malcolm Feeley & Edward Rubin
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Judicial Politics, Law, Comparative Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

New analysis of a fundamental concept in politics and law, by a pair of influential and respected scholars

Understanding Torture

Law, Violence, and Political Identity

By John Parry
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Philosophy

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence

Judges and Unjust Laws

Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review

By Douglas E. Edlin
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Legal History, Comparative Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics

Are judges legally obligated to enforce an unjust law?

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

Cross Purposes

Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

By Paula Abrams
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, American Religious History, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Religion, Education

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

A Good Quarrel

America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court

By Jerry Goldman & Timothy R. B. Johnson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, Media Studies, Journalism

The country's top legal reporters comment on and analyze some of the most important oral arguments in recent court history

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

Sacred Violence

Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

By Paul W. Kahn
Subjects: Law, International Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism?

The Supreme Court on Trial

How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants

By George C. Thomas
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political Science, Judicial Politics

Has the American criminal justice system abandoned its duty to protect the innocent?

The Great Justices, 1941-54

Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers

By William Domnarski
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Biography, History, American History, Political Science, Judicial Politics

An illuminating look at how the egos and ambitions of four celebrated Supreme Court justices affected their thinking on issues that still resonate today

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