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

Peter H. Irons

ISBN 10: 1565840461 / ISBN 13: 9781565840461

Editore: New Press, 1993

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Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton, this 1993 volume from The New Press presents transcripts of twenty-three landmark oral arguments delivered before the United States Supreme Court between 1955 and 1986, paired with audio recordings drawn from the Court's archives at the National Archives. The collection covers pivotal constitutional disputes involving civil rights, free speech, abortion, school prayer, and criminal procedure, featuring cases such as Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, and Cooper v. Aaron. Irons, a political scientist and civil liberties attorney, faced controversy from Chief Justice Rehnquist over his use of the recordings, though no legal action ultimately followed.

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• Titolo: May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955
• Editore: New Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1565840461
• ISBN 13: 9781565840461
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Dimensioni: 12 L x 12 A x 3 P (pollici) 12 pollici di larghezza per 12 pollici di altezza per 3 pollici di profondità
• Peso: 2 libbre

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Offers transcriptions of oral arguments from twenty-three ground-breaking cases presented to the Supreme Court since 1955, including Roe v. Wade, Nixon v. United States, Cox v. Louisiana, and others.

Informazioni sull?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, including Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People's History of the Supreme Court. He is a co-editor of May 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, and May 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.