A constitution for all times / Pamela S. Karlan.

Pamela S. Karlan is a unique figure in American law. A professor at Stanford Law School and former counsel for the NAACP, she has argued seven cases at the Supreme Court and worked on dozens more as a clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun. In her first book written for a general audience, she examines wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karlan, Pamela S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, ©2013.
Series:	Boston review book.
Subjects:	Constitutional law > United States. Political questions and judicial power. LAW > Constitutional. LAW > Public. Constitutional law Political questions and judicial power Law - U.S. Law, Politics & Government. Constitutional Law - U.S. United States
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

In the beginning
Founding firearms
Why interpretive methods matter
What do we mean by judicial activism?
The unhealthy activism of the Roberts Court
The long shadow Bush v. Gore
The wages of Watergate
Me, Inc.
Votes behind bars
Gideon's muted trumpet
The cost of death
What's a right without a remedy?
When the umpire throws the pitches
Empty benches
Sometimes an amendment is just an amendment
It takes two
The constitution without the court.

A constitution for all times / Pamela S. Karlan.

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