Wrong Turns Eleventh Amendment Pennhurst by Shapiro David (1 results)
Published by The Harvard Law Review Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerOriginal November 1984 offprint Harvard Law Review containing David L. Shapiroâs "Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case." Octavo, original publisherâs wrappers, Volume 98, Number 1. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, "ForÂRuth, With all best regards, David." ÂThe recipient, Ruth… Bader Ginsburg, served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day OâConnor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and womenâs rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed âthe Notorious R.B.G.â, a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996) which struck down the Virginia Military Instituteâs male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000) in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In fine condition with a few pencil notations. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. David L. Shapiro (1932â"2023) was a distinguished Harvard Law School professor and a leading authority on federal courts and civil procedure, widely regarded as an influential figure in modern federal courts jurisprudence. Over a career spanning several decades at Harvard, Shapiro shaped scholarly and judicial understanding of jurisdiction, judicial review, and the institutional role of federal courts within the constitutional system. Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered him in his Harvard Law Review In Memoriam issue, "Among members of the legal academy, David L. Shapiro impressed me as the very best, the most devoted to his teaching and writing, the least self-regarding. He was ever mindful of the importance of facts and of the law's impact on the people law exists (or should exist) to serve. And I will miss our correspondence about the Court's jurisprudence, his applause for some of our decisions, his worries about others. But I count it my good fortune to have known David L. Shapiro, a man as kind and caring as he was brilliant.".
