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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark TushnetPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.397kg ISBN: 9780691070353ISBN 10: 0691070350 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 13 August 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsA valuable addition to the swelling chorus of 'judicial review' skeptics... a book-length defense of this interesting heresy. -- Richard Posner The New Republic Tushnet ... makes a bold and compelling argument against judicial review as the primary means of constitutional reform, arguing that this tradition takes lawmaking out of the hands of the people and relinquishes it to the courts. Booknews [Tushnet's] ideas will challenge and inform academics, lawyers, and college students interested in the foundations of the American political system... This bold analysis for 21st-century constitutional interpretation is highly recommended. Library Journal Both at the turn of the last century and at the turn of this one, the American courts have shown that they are willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those who oppose progressive reform. Mark Tushnet's work is a welcome sign that at last the tide is beginning to turn, and that American law professors are no longer willing to be complicit in this obstructionism. -- Jeremy Waldron Times Literary Supplement A valuable addition to the swelling chorus of 'judicial review' skeptics... a book-length defense of this interesting heresy. -- Richard Posner, The New Republic Tushnet ... makes a bold and compelling argument against judicial review as the primary means of constitutional reform, arguing that this tradition takes lawmaking out of the hands of the people and relinquishes it to the courts. -- Booknews [Tushnet's] ideas will challenge and inform academics, lawyers, and college students interested in the foundations of the American political system... This bold analysis for 21st-century constitutional interpretation is highly recommended. -- Library Journal Both at the turn of the last century and at the turn of this one, the American courts have shown that they are willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those who oppose progressive reform. Mark Tushnet's work is a welcome sign that at last the tide is beginning to turn, and that American law professors are no longer willing to be complicit in this obstructionism. -- Jeremy Waldron, Times Literary Supplement A valuable addition to the swelling chorus of 'judicial review' skeptics... a book-length defense of this interesting heresy. -- Richard Posner, The New Republic Tushnet ... makes a bold and compelling argument against judicial review as the primary means of constitutional reform, arguing that this tradition takes lawmaking out of the hands of the people and relinquishes it to the courts. -- Booknews [Tushnet's] ideas will challenge and inform academics, lawyers, and college students interested in the foundations of the American political system... This bold analysis for 21st-century constitutional interpretation is highly recommended. -- Library Journal Both at the turn of the last century and at the turn of this one, the American courts have shown that they are willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those who oppose progressive reform. Mark Tushnet's work is a welcome sign that at last the tide is beginning to turn, and that American law professors are no longer willing to be complicit in this obstructionism. -- Jeremy Waldron, Times Literary Supplement Author InformationMark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law and of a two-volume study of the career of Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 and Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991. He is also the coauthor of a leading casebook on constitutional law and was from 1975 to 1985 the Secretary of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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