Constitutional law stories
By: edited by Michael C. Dorf.
Contributors: Dorf, Michael C.; West (Firm)
Publisher: Foundation Press; Thomson/West
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; [St. Paul, MN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases.
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
" ... a selection of interesting tales that provide a deeper understanding of the project of constitutional law as a whole"--P. [1].
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 Congressional power over commerce / Jim Chen; title: The story of Clinton v. Jones: Presidential promiscuity and the paths of constitutional retribution / 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 Brown v. City of Oneonta: the uncertain meaning of racially discriminatory policing under the equal protection clause / R. Richard Banks; 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: The story of Roe v. Wade: from a garage sale for women's lib, to the Supreme Court, to political turmoil / 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.