The Constitution in 2020
By: Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, eds.
Contributors: Balkin, J. M.; Siegel, Reva B., 1956-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780195387971; 9780195387964
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States; Law reform -- United States; Constitutional history -- United States
Description: 'The Constitution in 2020' is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. The book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The constitution in 2020 / Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siege; title: Fidelity to text and principle / Jack M. Balkin; title: The future of progressive constitutionalism / Robert C. Post and Reva B. Siegel; title: The minimalist constitution / Cass R. Sunstein; title: Economic power and the constitution / Frank Michelman; title: Social and economic rights in the American grain / William E. Forbath; title: State action in 2020 / Mark Tushnet; title: The missing jurisprudence of legislated constitutionalism / Robin West; title: Remembering how to do equality / Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel; title: The citizenship agenda / Bruce Ackerman; title: National citizenship and the promise of educational opportunity / Goodwin Liu; title: Terms of belonging / Rachel F. Moran; title: Hopeless constitutionalism, hopeful pragmatism / Richard T. Ford; title: Voting rights and the third reconstruction / Pam Karlan; title: Political organizations and the future of democracy / Larry Kramer; title: A progressive perspective on freedom of speech / Robert C. Post; title: Information structures and the constitution of American society / Yochai Benkler; title: The constitution in the national surveillance state / Jack M. Balkin; title: The progressive past / Tracey L. Meares; title: The framers' church-state problem and ours / Noah Feldman; title: Progressives, the religion clauses, and the limits of secularism / William P. Marshall; title: A liberal vision of American Family Law in 2020 / William N. Eskridge, Jr; title: A progressive reproductive rights agenda for 2020 / Dawn E. Johnsen; title: What's federalism for? / Judith Resnik; title: Progressive constitutionalism and transnational law / Vicki C. Jackson; title: "Strategies of the weak": thinking globally and acting locally toward a; title: Progressive constitutional vision / David Cole; title: America and the world / Harold Hongju Koh.