May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1595580905 ISBN 13: 9781595580900

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2008

Riassunto

A new edition of a best-selling book-and-audio set of Supreme Court oral arguments includes both transcriptions and recordings of significant cases from the past half century, providing in the current release MP3 and audio CD formats. Original.

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"One of the most effective teaching tools available." —The Washington Post

"A front-row seat in America’s most powerful courtroom, where very, very few have had the opportunity to sit." —American Bar Association Journal

"A treasure trove . . . that provides insight into the Supreme Court and the judicial process that is otherwise available only to those who find themselves in Washington, D.C., at just the right time." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A strong and direct whiff of history." —The New York Times Book Review

L'autore

Peter H. Irons is emeritus professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation, includingJim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People’s History of the Supreme Court. He is a co-editor ofMay It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 (with Stephanie Guitton),May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases, andMay It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers, all published by The New Press. He has also contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He was chosen in 1988 as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University. He has been invited to lecture on constitutional law and civil liberties at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford and at more than twenty other schools. In addition to his academic work, Irons has been active in public affairs. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the 1980s in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal convictions of Japanese Americans who had challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Stephanie Guitton is a graduate of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a law degree from the University of Poitiers in France.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1595580905
• ISBN 13: 9781595580900
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 375
• Redattore: Irons Peter H., Guitton Stephanie