Constitutional law stories
By: edited by Michael C. Dorf.
Contributors: Dorf, Michael C.; West (Firm)
Edition: 2nd ec.
Publisher: Foundation Press Thomson/West; West Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9781599411699
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases
Genres: Cases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Putting the people back in "We the people" / Michael C. Dorf; title: The story of Marbury v. Madison : making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell; title: The story of McCulloch : banking on national power / Daniel A. Farber; title: The story of Wickard v. Filburn : agriculture, aggregation, and commerce / Jim Chen; title: The story of Bush v. Gore : the paradox of judicial activism / Michael J. Gerhardt; title: The story of Dred Scott : originalism's forgotten past / Christopher L. Eisgruber; title: The story of Plessy v. Ferguson : the death and resurrection of racial formalism / Cheryl I. Harris; title: The story of Korematsu : the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda; title: The story of Baker v. Carr / Stephen Ansolabehere and Samuel Issacharoff; title: The story of Lochner v. New York : impediment to the growth of the regulatory state / David E. Bernstein; title: Contested ground : the story of Roe v. Wade and its impact on American society / Lucinda M. Finley; title: The story of Whitney v. California : the power of ideas / Ashutosh A. Bhagwat; title: The story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette : the pledge of allegiance and the freedom of thought / Vincent Blasi and Seana V. Shiffrin; title: The story of Al Smith : the first amendment meets grandfather peyote / Garrett Epps; title: The story of City of Boerne v. Flores : federalism, rights, and judicial supremacy / Mark Tushnet; title: The story of the Guantánamo cases : Habeas Corpus, the reach of the court, and the War on Terror / Benjamin Wittes and Hannah Neprash.