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Right-To-Die, Bruce Morton

Bruce N. Morton

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Not All Black And White, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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The Impact Of “Standing” Is Anything But Boring, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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7 Things You Need To Know About: Constitutional Law, Corey A. Ciocchetti

Corey A Ciocchetti

These slides cover the 7 most important things you need to know about Constitutional Law - especially as it relates to business. Topics covered include the Supremacy Clause & preemption, Commercial Speech & the First Amendment, the Commerce Clause, the Bill of Rights and Constitutional History.

Supreme Court 2003-2004 Term: The § 1983 Decisions, Martin A. Schwartz

Martin A. Schwartz

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Is It Time To Stop Tinkering With The Machinery Of Death?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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The Blinding Color Of Race: Elections And Democracy In The Post-Shelby County Era, Sahar F. Aziz

Sahar F. Aziz

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George Will’S Supreme Court History Is Dubious, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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Will ‘Rule Of Five’ End Marriage Debate?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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Lane V. Franks: The Supreme Court Clarifies Public Employees’ Free Speech Rights, Thomas A. Schweitzer

Thomas A. Schweitzer

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The Supreme Court 2007-2008: Competency, Gun Control, And Capital Punishment, Steven Smith

STEVEN R SMITH

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The Supreme Court 2013-2014: The Happiest Term?, Steven Smith

STEVEN R SMITH

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From Expert Witnesses To ‘Fleeting Expletives’: The Supreme Court 2008-2009, Steven Smith

STEVEN R SMITH

The October 2008 Term of the United States Supreme Court began on October 6,2008. By the time the Term adjourned on June 29, 2009, the Court had changed or clarified the law in several important areas. (As we shall see, technically there was another argument in September 2009 as part of this Term.) The Court also seemed to foreshadow larger changes ahead, and saw Justice David Souter announce at the end of April that he would be stepping down from the Court. This article will review the major decisions of the Court during the Term. It will also analyze the …

Legal Perspectives: The New Supreme Court, Steven Smith

STEVEN R SMITH

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Life, Death, Or Miranda: The Supreme Court Term 2009-2010, Steven Smith

STEVEN R SMITH

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When Should The Supreme Court Justices ‘Decide’ A Right?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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Transparent Adjudication: Promoting Democratic Dialogue On Judicial Conceptions Of Politics, Bertrall L. Ross Ii

Bertrall L Ross

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Speech And Strife, Robert Tsai

Robert L. Tsai

The essay strives for a better understanding of the myths, symbols, categories of power, and images deployed by the Supreme Court to signal how we ought to think about its authority. Taking examples from free speech jurisprudence, the essay proceeds in three steps. First, Tsai argues that the First Amendment constitutes a deep source of cultural authority for the Court. As a result, linguistic and doctrinal innovation in the free speech area have been at least as bold and imaginative as that in areas like the Commerce Clause. Second, in turning to cognitive theory, he distinguishes between formal legal argumentation …

How Obamacare’S Future Rests On A Single Clause, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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First Amendment Freedom Of Speech And Religion - October 2009 Term, Burt Neuborne, Michael Dorf

Michael C. Dorf

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Three Vital Issues: Incorporation Of The Second Amendment, Federal Government Power, And Separation Of Powers - October 2009 Term, Michael C. Dorf, Erwin Chemerinsky

Michael C. Dorf

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Federal Governmental Power: The Voting Rights Act, Michael C. Dorf

Michael C. Dorf

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All Signs Point To A Headache When Court Hears This Case, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

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“Shuffling” Sam Thompson And Other Notes From The 1959 Term, Ralph J. Moore Jr.

Ralph Moore

A wry account of the work of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1959 Term by one of Chief Justice Earl Warren's law clerks. It gives accounts of the Court's handling of three cases that term, one involving Sam Thompson, who was harassed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, one involving Leon Wolfe and friends, who were convicted of criminal trespass for playing golf on a Jim Crow course on city-owned land in Greensboro, North Carolina, and one involving Clifton Poret and Edgar Labat, who spent years on death row in Louisiana after conviction for raping a white …

Constitutional Law In Social Choice Perspective, Maxwell Stearns

Maxwell L. Stearns

Constitutional scholars do not typically employ spatial reasoning in their work. And yet, constitutional jurisprudence implicitly rests on a set of assumptions that can best be cast in spatial terms. This includes assuming that debated positions respecting constitutional issues, along with the views of Supreme Court justices, rest along a common liberal-to-conservative ideological dimension. Political scientists who embrace the Attitudinal Model are more explicit in this framing, which is itself a premise of those who code the Supreme Court Database upon which much quantitative work in the field of Judicial Politics takes place.

The assumption of a single analytical dimension …