Constitution

A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse.

WINNER OF THE ANNE B.

A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's feminist jurisprudence.

An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most controversial justices to have been on the United States Supreme Court.

The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in redefining religious freedom in the courtroom.

A timely examination of Alabama's severely criticized state constitution Alabama's present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the state's historic difficulties and inequities.

Constitutional scholar George Anastaplo believes that many judges and lawyers draw upon a skimpy, if not simply unreliable, knowledge of history.

The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture.

The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture.

The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.

Constitutional scholar George Anastaplo believes that many judges and lawyers draw upon a skimpy, if not simply unreliable, knowledge of history.

The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.

Since the Constitution's ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention.

Winner: Langum PrizeWinner: Alpha Sigma Nu Book AwardIt has become known to many as the moment when the U.

On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best.

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest.

Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans.

In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the states western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies.

Tracing over 200 years of constitutional tradition inFlorida As historicaldocuments, constitutions represent a unique window into the economic, social,and political contexts of the people who debated, drafted, and ratified them.

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalias entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v.

Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn two canonical decisions of the 1920sMeyer v.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory.

Winner: Langum PrizeWinner: Alpha Sigma Nu Book AwardIt has become known to many as the moment when the U.

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

Langum Prize, Honorable MentionAmericans value privacy as one of their most cherished rights, yet the word "e;privacy"e; isn't even mentioned in the U.

In The Making of Reverse Discrimination Ellen Messer-Davidow offers a fresh and incisive analysis of the legal-judicial discourse of DeFunis v.

Brown v.

Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans.

In the fourth of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787, John Jay warned of absolute monarchs who will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it.

For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.

Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses.

In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the states western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies.

Over the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation policynegotiating the first international conservation treaties, pioneering the idea of the national park, and leading the world in creating a modern environmental regulatory regime.

When political debates devolve, as they often do these days, into a contest between big-government progressivism and natural rights individualism, Americans tend to appeal to the self-evident truths inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Winner: Thomas M.

What would an Anti-Federalist Constitution look like?

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleLetters of marque might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution.

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalias entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v.

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles.

For more than two centuries, the U.

On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best.

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest.

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day.

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v.

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuirs Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v.

Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause.

Beginning with Brown v.

Since at least the time of Justinianunder statutes, codes of judicial ethics, and the common lawjudges have been expected to recuse themselves from cases in which they might have a stake.