Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568025424 ISBN 13: 9781568025421

Synopsis

This book is part of a two-volume set that highlights the role of politics in the development of constitutional law. It covers Americans' various rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press while it also examines cases that have addressed both discrimination and defendants' rights.

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Lee Epstein is the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University. She is coauthor of The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty (1992) with Joseph Kobylka; Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments (2005) with Jeffrey A. Segal; The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 4th ed. (2007) with Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker; and The Choices Justices Make (1998) with Jack Knight, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book on law and courts. In addition, she is coauthor, with Walter F. Murphy and C. Herman Pritchett of Courts, Judges and Politics, 6th ed. (2006). Thomas G. Walker is Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University where he has won several teaching awards for his courses on constitutional law and the judicial process. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. His book, A Court Divided, written with Deborah J. Barrow, won the prestigious V.O. Key Award for the best book on southern politics. He is the coauthor of The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments, 4th ed. (2007) with Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth.

Synopsis

Synthesizes the best of legal and political science approaches to constitutional law, offering excerpts, in the traditional manner, of new and classic Supreme Court cases, and discussing the rich political context in which decisions are reached. Many factors influencing the direction and content of Supreme Court decisions are taken into account, su

Edition details

• Publication date: 1709
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568025424
• ISBN 13: 9781568025421
• Binding: Paperback