The unpredictable constitution
By: edited by Norman Dorsen.
Contributors: Dorsen, Norman.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States; Constitutional law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Government benefits : a new look at an old gift horse / Patricia M. Wald; title: Racism in American and South African courts : similarities and differences / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; title: Portia's progress / Sandra Day O'Connor; title: Speaking in a judicial voice / Ruth Bader Ginsburg; title: Beyond "reasonable doubt" / Jon O. Newman; title: The death penalty in America : can justice be done? / Betty B. Fletcher; title: To err is human, but not always harmless : when should legal error be tolerated? / Harry T. Edwards; title: How James Madison interpreted the constitution / Richard S. Arnold; title: Against constitutional theory / Richard A. Posner; title: The anatomy of an execution : fairness versus "process" / Stephen Reinhardt; title: Women and the constitution : where we are at the end of the century / Martha Craig Daughtrey; title: Sovereignty in comparative perspective : constitutionalism in Britain and America / Lord Irvine of Lairg.