Because the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what the
Constitution means, they can create constitutional change. For
quite some time, general readers who have been interested in
understanding those changes have not had a concise volume that
explores major decisions in which those changes occur. Traditional
casebooks used in law schools typically pay scant attention to the
historical and political context in which cases are decided, as
well as the motives of litigants, the involvement of interest
groups, and the justices' concerns with policy outcomes, even
though all these factors are critical to understanding the Court's
decisions. Other books do address these concerns, but they almost
always focus on a single policy issue rather than on a broader
range of constitutional conflicts that populate the Court's
docket.
In order to make a wide range of decisions more accessible,
Gregg Ivers and Kevin T. McGuire commissioned twenty-two
outstanding scholars to write essays on a selected series of
Supreme Court cases. Chosen for their contemporary relevance, most
of the cases addressed in this informative reader are from the last
half-century, extending right up through Bush v. Gore and the 2003
Michigan affirmative action cases.
In each of these roughly two dozen cases, the authors address a
number of questions that provide readers with a deeper
understanding of the Court and its policies: How did the conflict
originate? What role did organized interests have in the case? What
did the litigants, personally and professionally, have at stake?
What was the practical result of the Court's decision? Did the
Court respond to lobbying or public opinion? These detailed
historical and personal accounts in this all-new collection of
essays offer engaging and illuminating perspectives on law and
politics.
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