Product Description: The courts and, indeed, the law itself are under assault from both right and left. Conservatives denounce what they see as liberal judicial activism in decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state...read more

Product Description: Fascinating and rich in drama, Constitutional Law Stories – edited by Columbia University Law Professor Michael C. Dorf, and featuring leading constitutional law scholars – provides real lessons pertaining to the interpretation of the United States Constitution...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume are all concerned with the arguments about law as a system of rule-based decision-making, particularly the ideas advanced by legal philosopher Frederick Schauer. Schauer's work has not only helped revive interest in legal formalism, but has also helped relocate arguments about he relationship between posited rules and morality...read more

Demystifies the process of reading the Constitution, examines controversial issues and debates, and discusses the Supreme Court's constitional role