The Practice of American Constitutional Law

ISBN-13: 9781009158862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

North Carolina) Powell H. Jefferson (Duke University

Opis

A comprehensive, ideologically neutral description of the practice of constructing and evaluating constitutional law arguments.

Recenzje

'Reading Jeff Powell's beautiful, learned, and astonishingly comprehensive book transformed my sense of what constitutional law is and how it works. It should be read by every judge, lawyer, and indeed citizen of this country. When law itself is under threat in our world, he shows us what it is and why it is so important.' James Boyd White, L. Hart Wright Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus, University of Michigan; author of The Legal Imagination and Keep Law Alive

Spis treści

Introduction: What is the constitution?; 1. Constitutional lawyers as problem solvers; 2. Identifying the problem: the twofold logic of constitutional law; 3. Solving constitutional problems: the basic toolkit; 4. Solving constitutional problems: the importance of institutional perspective; 5. Solving constitutional problems: specific clauses in the written constitution; 6. Identifying the solution: persuasiveness in constitutional law; Conclusion: constitutional law as problem solving; Appendix.