The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

The Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of the most important cases ever argued before the Court, from Marbury v. Madison and Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision) to Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade.
This new edition of the Guide contains more than 450 entries on major Supreme Court cases, including 53 new entries on the latest landmark rulings. Among the new entries are Bush v. Gore, Nixon v. United States, Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights. Four decisions--Hamdi v. Bush, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasu v. Bush, and Rumsfeld v. Padilla--are considered in a single essay entitled "Enemy Combatant Cases." Arranged alphabetically and written by eminent legal scholars, each entry provides the United States Reports citation, the date the case was argued and decided, the vote of the Justices, who wrote the opinion for the Court, who concurred, and who dissented. More important, the entries feature an informative account of the particulars of the case, the legal and social background, the reasoning behind the Court's decision, and the case's impact on American society. For this edition, Ely has added an extensive Further Reading section and revised the Case Index and Topical Index. The Guide also features the Constitution of the United States, an appendix on the Justices, and a legal glossary.
For anyone interested in the great controversies of our time, this invaluable book is a mustread--a primer on the epic constitutional battles that have informed American life.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Kermit L. Hall (President)
Editors:	James W. Ely (Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	528
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-537939-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Law reports Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-537939-X
Barcode:	9780195379396

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