May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 - Softcover

Irons, Peter H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595580905 ISBN 13: 9781595580900

Publisher: The New Press, 2008

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"One of the most effective teaching tools available." —The Washington Post
"A front-row seat in America's most powerful courtroom, where very, very few have had the opportunity to sit." —American Bar Association Journal
"A treasure trove . . . that provides insight into the Supreme Court and the judicial process that is otherwise available only to those who find themselves in Washington, D.C., at just the right time." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A strong and direct whiff of history." —The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Peter H. Irons is emeritus professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation, including Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People's History of the Supreme Court. He is a co-editor of May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 (with Stephanie Guitton), May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases, and May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers, all published by The New Press. He has also contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He was chosen in 1988 as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University. He has been invited to lecture on constitutional law and civil liberties at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford and at more than twenty other schools. In addition to his academic work, Irons has been active in public affairs. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the 1980s in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal convictions of Japanese Americans who had challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Stephanie Guitton is a graduate of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a law degree from the University of Poitiers in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1595580905
• ISBN 13: 9781595580900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 375
• Editor: Guitton Stephanie