Constitutional law stories /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: West (Firm)
Other Authors: Dorf, Michael C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : [St. Paul, Minn.] : Foundation Press ; Thomson/West, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 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 Congressional power over commerce / Jim Chen
  • The story of Clinton v. Jones: Presidential promiscuity and the paths of constitutional retribution / 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 Brown v. City of Oneonta: the uncertain meaning of racially discriminatory policing under the equal protection clause / R. Richard Banks
  • 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
  • The story of Roe v. Wade: from a garage sale for women's lib, to the Supreme Court, to political turmoil / 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.