Robin L West

Progressive Constitutionalism

Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amemdment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book will be an extremely important and influential contribution to the literature. Readers will find the book of great help in understanding the important differences between various strands of constitutional and interpretative theory."--Mary E. Becker, University of Chicago Law School

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 166mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 871g
• ISBN-13: 9780822315254
• ISBN-10: 0822315254
• Artikelnr.: 21072744

Autorenporträt

Robin West is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, feminist legal theory, and law and literature. She is the author of Narrative, Authority, and Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Part I. Equal Protection of the Laws
1. Toward an Abolitionist Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment 9
2. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth
Amendment 45
3. The Meaning of Equality and the Interpretive Turn 73
Part II. Due Process of law
4. Reconstructing Liberty 105
5. The Ideal of Liberty 129
6. Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect 144
Part III. Institutional Responsibilities
7. Constitutional Skepticism 155
8. The Authoritarian Impulse in Constitutional Law 190
9. Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism 211
10. The Aspirational Constitution 290
Notes 319
Index 355