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The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective

The tenure of Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1953-1969) was marked by a series of decisions unique in the history of the Court for…

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Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and Literature

Mark V. Tushnet

Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and…

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The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

Mark V. Tushnet

The NAACP’s fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate…

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The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective

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Constitutional Law

Mark V. Tushnet

This collection of articles on constitutional law covers topics such as: progressive and conservative constitutionalism, theories of constitutional interpretation, and structures of government in constitutional law.

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Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle Over Guns

Mark V Tushnet (Georgetown University)

One of the nation’s leading legal scholars takes a calm, unbiased look at the bitter debate over the Second Amendment that exists between the National Rifle Association and gun-control groups.

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Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts

Mark V. Tushnet

Challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow US judges to invalidate unconstitutional governmental actions. This book encourages us to take responsibility for protecting our liberties.

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The New Constitutional Order

Mark V. Tushnet

Argues that the constitutional arrangements that prevailed in the United States from the 1930’s to the 1990’s have ended. This book examines the institutional arrangements that support the constitutional order…

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The Hughes Court: Volume 11: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941

Mark V. Tushnet (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts)

This comprehensive study unpacks the claim that there was a Constitutional Revolution in 1937, instead concluding that US constitutional law gradually transformed throughout the 1930s. In combining doctrinal analysis with…

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Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the…

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Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

Mark V. Tushnet

Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the…

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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Mark V. Tushnet (Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Georgetown University)

A chronological narrative history of the legal struggle that preceded the political battles for civil rights, from the 1930s to the 1950s, waged by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Tushnet…

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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Mark V. Tushnet (Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Georgetown University)

A chronological narrative history of the legal struggle that preceded the political battles for civil rights, from the 1930s to the 1950s, waged by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Tushnet…

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Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment

Mark V. Tushnet,Alan K. Chen,Joseph Blocher

A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schoeenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky…

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Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment

Mark V. Tushnet,Alan K. Chen,Joseph Blocher

A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schoeenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky…

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The First Amendment

Geoffrey R Stone, Louis Michael Seidman, Cass R Sunstein, Mark V Tushnet, Pamela S Karlan, Aziz Huq, Leah M Litman

"Casebook on the First Amendment for law school courses"--

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Arguing Marbury v. Madison

This book provides a transcript, with essays, for Marbury v. Madison, decided in 1803, which is the foundation stone of the American doctrine of judicial review.

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Arguing Marbury v. Madison

This book provides a transcript, with essays, for Marbury v. Madison, decided in 1803, which is the foundation stone of the American doctrine of judicial review.

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Remnants of Belief: Contemporary Constitutional Issues

Louis Michael Seidman (Professor of Law),Mark V. Tushnet (Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, both at Georgetown University)

Designed as a supplement for constitutional law courses and seminars, Seidman and Tushnet use examples drawn from the popular press, public discussion and law articles to show how and why…

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The Regulatory and Administrative State: Materials, Cases, Comments

Lisa Heinzerling (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center),Mark V. Tushnet (William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)

The casebook introduces students to the reasons for regulation, the ways in which regulation can go awry, the choice of legal institutions, the choice of regulatory instruments, and the art…

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The First Amendment: [Connected Ebook]

Geoffrey R Stone,Louis M Seidman,Cass R Sunstein,Mark V Tushnet,Pamela S Karlan

Comprehensive First Amendment casebook geared toward top-tier law schools. Covers free speech, press, and religion. Book provides excellent balance of doctrinal, historical, and theoretical approaches to First Amendment jurisprudence. The…

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Colored Men and Hombres Aqui: Hernandez V. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering

This collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving…

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Constitutional Law 2022 Supplement

Geoffrey R Stone,Louis M Seidman,Cass R Sunstein

The 2022 Annual Supplement, like prior Supplements, includes excerpts from recent scholarship and from important new decisions of the Supreme Court--including major cases on abortion, gun rights, religious displays, and…

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