A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons

A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court

Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Peter Irons chronicles the decisions that have influenced virtually every aspect of our society, from the debates over judicial power to controversial rulings in the past regarding slavery, racial segregation, and abortion, as well as more current cases about school prayer, the Bush/Gore election results, and enemy combatants. To understand key issues facing the supreme court and the current battle for the court's ideological makeup, there is no better guide than Peter Irons. This revised and updated edition includes a foreword by Howard Zinn.

A sophisticated narrative history of the Supreme Court . . . Irons] breathes abundant life into old documents and reminds readers that today's fiercest arguments about rights are the continuation of the endless American conversation. -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

Irons is a political science emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People's History of the Supreme Court are two of his many publications on the Supreme Court and constitutional issues. May It Please the Court: The Most Important Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 (co-edited 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 Major First Amendment Cases, and May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Case He has also written for a number of legal reviews and other publications. In 1988, he was appointed to Rutgers University as the inaugural Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights.

He has given talks on constitutional law and civil freedoms at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford law schools, as well as more than twenty additional schools. Irons has been involved in public matters in addition to his academic activities. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney who led the successful battle in the 1980s to overturn the criminal convictions of Japanese Americans who defied the curfew and removal orders during World War II. He was also elected to the American Civil Liberties Union's national board for two terms.

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ISBN 13	9780670870066
ISBN 10	0670870064
Title	A People's History of the Supreme Court
Author	Peter Irons
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1999-08-26
Number of pages	560
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