T. Patrick Hill

No Place for Ethics

Judicial Review, Legal Positivism, and the Supreme Court of the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues the Supreme Court has an overriding obligation to ground its judicial review responsibilities not only in the Constitution but also in ethics, understood as the Constitution's ultimate justification. The text discusses a response to the question basic to all human beings: how should I behave?

Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781683933250
• ISBN-10: 1683933257
• Artikelnr.: 67820886

Autorenporträt

T. Patrick Hill is associate professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethics and Law, A Complicated but Necessary Relationship
One: Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45 (1905): Public Health and. the
Constitutionally Protected Right of Contract between an Employer and
Employees
Two: DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S.
189 (1989): Liberty and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
Three: New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992): Wither the Social
Contract?
Four: FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, 529 U.S 98 (2000): FDA
Uses the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) of 1938 to Claim Regulatory
Authority Over Tobacco Products
Five: United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000): Legal Formalism
versus Human Rights, Federal Civil Remedies and the Victims of
Gender-Motivated Violence