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A year at the Supreme Court / edited by Neal Devins & Davison M. Douglas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Constitutional conflicts.
- Constitutional conflicts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--History--21st century.
- United States.
- Law--United States--History--21st century.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Profiles a watershed year (2002-2003) in the life of the U.S. Supreme Court, with contributions by journalists and Court advocates that discuss critical rulings on gay rights, affirmative action, hate speech, federal-state relations, and criminal law.
- Contents:
- A high court of one : the role of the "swing voter" in the 2002 term / Dahlia Lithwick
- Anthony M. Kennedy and the road not taken / David G. Savage
- A revolutionary year : judicial assertiveness and gay rights / David J. Garrow
- The next culture war / Jeffrey Rosen
- The affirmative action decisions / Stuart Taylor, Jr
- Was affirmative action saved by its friends? / Carter G. Phillips
- The court's faux federalism / Ramesh Ponnuru
- Cross burning : Virginia v. Black / Rod Smolla
- Cruel and unusual : Lockyer v. Andrade / Erwin Chemerinsky
- Glasnost at the Supreme Court / Tony Mauro.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed April 19, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613023834
- 9781283023832
- 1283023830
- 9780822385950
- 0822385953
- OCLC:
- 213455193
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