Devins / Douglas / Graber A Year at the Supreme Court

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8595-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional conflicts

Profiles a watershed year (2002-2003) in the life of the U.S. Supreme Court, with contributions by journalists and Court advocates that discuss critical rulings on gay rights, affirmative action, hate speech, federal-state relations, and criminal law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devins, Neal

Douglas, Davison M.

Graber, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2002-03 ix

Introduction / Neil Devins and Davison M. Douglas 1

1. A High Court of One: The Role of the “Swing Voter” in the 2002 Term / Dahlia Lithwick 11

2. Anthony M. Kennedy and the Road Not Taken / David D. Savage 33

3. A Revolutionary Year: Judicial Assertiveness and Gay Rights / David J. Garrow 55

4. The Next Culture War / Jeffery Rosen 71

5. The Affirmative Action Decisions / Stuart Taylor, Jr. 87

6. Was Affirmative Action Saved by Its Friends? / Carter G. Phillips 113

7. The Court’s Faux Federalism / Ramesh Ponnuru 131

8. Cross Burning: Virginia v. Black / Rod Smolla 151

9. Cruel and Unusual: Lockyer v. Andrade / Erwin Chemerinskiy 175

10. Glasnost at the Supreme Court / Tony Mauro 191

Notes 209

Table of Cases 229

Index 233

Notes on the Contributors 241

Über Autor(innen)

Neal Devins is Goodrich Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William and Mary School of Law. He is also Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. His most recent books include The Democratic Constitution and Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law (4th edition), both coauthored with Louis Fisher.Davison M. Douglas is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William and Mary School of Law, where he is former Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. He is the author of Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools.