Constitutional law stories

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Constitutional law stories

edited by Michael C. Dorf ; [contributors, Stephen Ansolabehere ... et al.]

Foundation Press : Thomson/Reuters, 2009

2nd ed

Available at  / 10 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references

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  • Putting the people back in "We the people" / Michael C. Dorf
  • The story of Marbury v. Madison : making defeat look like victory / Michael W. McConnell
  • The story of McCulloch : banking on national power / Daniel A. Farber
  • The story of Wickard v. Filburn : agriculture, aggregation, and commerce / Jim Chen
  • The story of Bush v. Gore : the paradox of judicial activism / Michael J. Gerhardt
  • The story of Dred Scott : originalism's forgotten past / Christopher L. Eisgruber
  • The story of Plessy v. Ferguson : the death and resurrection of racial formalism / Cheryl I. Harris
  • The story of Korematsu : the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda
  • The story of Baker v. Carr / Stephen Ansolabehere and Samuel Issacharoff
  • The story of Lochner v. New York : impediment to the growth of the regulatory state / David E. Bernstein
  • Contested ground : the story of Roe v. Wade and its impact on American society / Lucinda M. Finley
  • The story of Whitney v. California : the power of ideas / Ashutosh A. Bhagwat
  • 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
  • The story of Al Smith : the first amendment meets grandfather peyote / Garrett Epps
  • The story of City of Boerne v. Flores : federalism, rights, and judicial supremacy / Mark Tushnet
  • The story of the Guantánamo cases : habeas corpus, the reach of the court, and the War on Terror / Benjamin Wittes and Hannah Neprash

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Dorf's Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status. This book is suitable for adoption as a supplement in an introductory constitutional law course or as a text for an advanced seminar.

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