The Unpredictable Constitution / / ed. by Norman Dorsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Richard S.,; Bader Ginsburg, Ruth,; Craig Daughtrey, Martha,; Day O’Connor, Sandra,; Dorsen, Norman,; Edwards, Harry T.,; Fletcher, Betty B.,; Higginbotham, A. Leon,; Newman, Jon O.,; Posner, Richard A.,; Reinhardt, Stephen,; Wald, Patricia M.,; of Lairg, Irvine,
• HerausgeberIn: Dorsen, Norman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties. In thoughtful and incisive essays, the authors draw on decades of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Government Benefits
• Chapter 2. Racism in American and South African Courts
• Chapter 3. Portia’s Progress
• Chapter 4. Speaking in a Judicial Voice
• Chapter 5. Beyond “Reasonable Doubt”
• Chapter 6. The Death Penalty in America
• Chapter 7. To Err Is Human, but Not Always Harmless
• Chapter 8. How James Madison Interpreted the Constitution
• Chapter 9. Against Constitutional Theory
• Chapter 10. The Anatomy of an Execution
• Chapter 11. Women and the Constitution
• Chapter 12. Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective
• Contributors
• Index