Constitutional category: 1750 books
The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review
Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what means should review on substantive grounds such as unreasonableness be expanded and intensified? Jowell,...
The Constitution in the Supreme Court
The Second Century, 1888-1986
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century traces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986). Currie argues that the Court's work in its second century revolved around two issues: the constitutionality...
Private Law
Key Encounters with Public Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The relationship between private and public law has long been the focus of critical attention, but recent years have seen the growing influence upon private law of statutory intervention, public regulation, corporate globalisation and constitutional and international human rights norms. Such developments...
American Law from a Catholic Perspective
Through a Clearer Lens
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, American Law from a Catholic Perspective is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American legal topics by major Catholic legal scholars. Contributors explore bankruptcy, corporate law, environmental law, family law, immigration, labor law, military law, property, torts,...
by Bernard H. Siegan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In this seminal work, Bernard Siegan traces the history of onstitutional protection for economic liberties in the United States. He argues that the law began to change with respect to economic liberties in the late 1930s. At that time, the Supreme Court abdicated much of its authority to protect property...
by George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture. Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution explores such issues by using classical standards of morality...
One Supreme Court
Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Department of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Despite over two hundred years of experience with constitutional government, much remains unclear about the power of the political branches to curtail or re-define the judicial power of the United States. Uncertainty persists about the basis on which state courts and federal agencies may hear federal...
by Professor Peter Cane
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Among the many constitutional developments of the past century or so, one of the most significant has been the creation and proliferation of institutions that perform functions similar to those performed by courts but which are considered to be, and in some ways are, different and distinct from courts...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
The University of Chicago Law Review's second issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include:
Article, "Property Lost in Translation," by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky
Article, "Tiers of Scrutiny...
The Age of Deference
The Supreme Court, National Security, and the Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In October 1948-one year after the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate military branch-a B-29 Superfortress crashed on a test run, killing the plane's crew. The plane was constructed with poor materials, and the families of the dead sued the U.S. government for damages. In the case, the government...
Freeing Speech
The Constitutional War over National Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The United States is in the midst of a heated conversation over how the Constitution impacts national security. In a traditional reading of the document, America uses military force only after a full and informed national debate. However, modern presidents have had unparalleled access to the media...
by Kevin W. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that freedom of expression can be very harmful to our children, making it more likely that they will be the perpetrators...
by Graham Gee, Robert Hazell, Kate Malleson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from political life. The central claim of this work is that far from standing apart from the political realm, judicial independence is a product of it. It is defined and protected through interactions between...
Curious Case of Kiryas Joel
The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Twenty years ago, in the middle of the night and on the last day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests of a religious sect called the Satmar, an insular group of Hasidic Jews that objects to, among other things,...