Rights, remedies, and the impact of state sovereign immunity / [Christopher Shortell].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shortell, Christopher, 1975-

Series:

SUNY series in American constitutionalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal government--United States.

Federal government.

Government liability.

United States.

Government liability--United States--States.

States' rights (American politics).

Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Understanding Immunity Beyond the Courts 1

Part 1 Setting the Stage: Development of a Doctrine

Chapter 2 The Doctrine of State Sovereign Immunity 13

Part 2 Understanding the Impact: A Look Back

Chapter 3 The Dawn of State Sovereign Immunity 27

Chapter 4 Debt Repudiation and Backlash in the 1840s 57

Chapter 5 Post-Civil War Debts and the Exercise of Immunity 85

Part 3 Ghosts of Cases Past: State Sovereign Immunity Today

Chapter 6 Sovereign Immunity in the Rehnquist and Roberts Eras 115.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

ISBN:

9780791475072

0791475077

OCLC:

171152568