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- The Unpredictable Constitution
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: NYU Press
The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties.
In thoughtful and incisive essays, the authors draw on decades of experience to examine such wide-ranging issues as how legal error should be handled, the death penalty, reasonable doubt, racism in American and South African courts, women and the constitution, and government benefits.
Contributors: Richard S. Arnold, Martha Craig Daughtry, Harry T. Edwards, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Betty B. Fletcher, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Lord Irvine of Lairg, Jon O. Newman, Sandra Day O'Connor, Richard A. Posner, Stephen Reinhardt, and Patricia M. Wald.
Table of Contents
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- Title
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-5
- 3. Portia’s Progress
- pp. 57-70
- 4. Speaking in a Judicial Voice
- pp. 71-100
- 5. Beyond “Reasonable Doubt”
- pp. 101-127
- 9. Against Constitutional Theory
- pp. 217-238
- Contributors
- pp. 335-336
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