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

Epstein, Lee; Walker, Thomas G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568028172 ISBN 13: 9781568028170

Publisher: CQ Press, 2003

Synopsis

Part of a two-volume set that highlights the role of politics - both inside and outside of the court - in the development of constitutional law. This book covers Americans' various rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568028172
• ISBN 13: 9781568028170
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 860