May It Please the Court. The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955: With Set of 23 Live Recordings (audio tapes) of Landmark Cases

Peter H. Irons [Editor]; Stephanie Guitton [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1565840364 / ISBN 13: 9781565840362

Published by The New Press, 1993

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• Title: May It Please the Court. The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955: With Set of 23 Live Recordings (audio tapes) of Landmark Cases
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565840364
• ISBN 13: 9781565840362
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 50 ounces

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Synopsis

This unique insider's look at the Supreme Court in session includes transcripts of actual landmark cases, including Miranda v. Arizona (the right to remain silent), Roe v. Wade (abortion rights), Bowers v. Hardwick (gay rights), Regents v. Bakke (reverse discrimination), Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage), United States v. Richard Nixon (Watergate), and many others. Previously only available through a visit to the National Archive in Washington, these transcripts bring pivotal moments in American legal history to life.

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, includingJim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People’s History of the Supreme Court. He is a co-editor ofMay 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, andMay 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.