Cato Supreme Court Review

2015-2016
Herausgeber: Shapiro, Ilya

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The only scholarly book to critique the Court from a Madisonian perspective, grounded in the nation's first principles: liberty and limited government.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cato Institute
• 15th edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781944424190
• ISBN-10: 1944424199
• Artikelnr.: 45640915

Autorenporträt

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato he was Special Assistant/Advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq on rule of law issues; practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs LLP and Cleary Gottlieb LLP; and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Shapiro has written for a wide variety of publications and regularly appears on TV and radio to comment on legal issues. Mr. Shapiro holds degrees from Princeton University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago Law School, and has been an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD - The Review's publisher... TBD By Roger Pilon
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin - For a second
time, the Court looks at whether and how UT-Austin can use racial
preferences in admissions. By Peter Kirsanow
EXECUTIVE POWER AND IMMIGRATION - United States v. Texas - Is President
Obama's executive action on immigration legal? By Josh Blackman
ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE - Evenwel v. Abbott - When states draw legislative
districts, must they equalize people or voters? By Hans von Spakovsky
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY - Zubik v. Burwell - Various religious nonprofits contend
that the "accommodation" to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate still
violates their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. By Mark
Rienzi
JUDICIAL SCRUTINY AND ABORTION - Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstadt - How
much should courts look into whether regulations actually serve the
governmental interest asserted to justify them. By Elizabeth Price Foley
PUBLIC CORRUPTION - McDonnell v. United States - Former Virginia governor
Bob McDonnell accepted gifts from and met with a businessman, but never
used his power to help him (nor pressured others to do so). Can his
behavior still be prosecuted? By Harvey Silverglate & Emma Quinn-Judge
PROPERTY RIGHTS - U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers v. Hawkes Co. - Can
property owners go to court to challenge an agency action that imperils the
use of their land? By Steven Eagle
Asset FOrfeiture - Luis v. United States - Does the pretrial freeze of
assets unconnected to any crime violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment right
to counsel of choice? By David B. Smith, Gabriel Latner, Terrance G. Reed &
Howard Srebnick
CLASS ACTIONS - Tyson Foods Inc. v. Bouaphakeo - Can a class action be
certified based on statistical sampling even though this guarantees that,
if the lawsuit is successful, some class members will be overcompensated
and others undercompensated? By Andrew J. Trask
SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE
ON ORIGINALISM AND LIBERTY - In this written version of the 2015 B. Kenneth
Simon Lecture in Constitutional Thought, Professor Steven G. Calabresi
examines the relevance of Magna Carta and natural rights to liberty under
U.S. constitutional law.
LOOKING AHEAD - Law professor and "Instapundit" Glenn Harlan Reynolds takes
a gander at the 2016-2017 term.