Cortner, Richard C.

RICHARD C. CORTNER is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. He has written at length on constitutional, civil liberties, and judicial issues. His work includes The Supreme Court and the Second Bill of Rights: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Nationalization of Civil Liberties (1981), A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi (1986), and A Mob Intent on Death: The NAACP and the Phillips County Riot Cases (1988), among others.