Farber & Siegel's United States Constitutional Police Line (2019)

Dan Farber of UC Berkeley Law School in addition to I are thrilled to denote the publication of our novel introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law, which focuses on the dynamic interactions betwixt judge-made constitutional doctrine in addition to constitutional politics inwards the areas of constitutional police that are most unremarkably covered inwards the basic course of education inwards police school.

Here is the description past times Foundation Press, which likewise includes generous endorsements past times Jack Balkin in addition to David Strauss:

United States Constitutional Law guides police students, political scientific discipline students, in addition to engaged citizens through the complexities of U.S. Supreme Court doctrine—and its human relationship to constitutional politics—in fundamental areas ranging from federalism in addition to presidential ability to equal protection in addition to noun due process. Rather than approach constitutional police equally a static construction or imagine the Supreme Court as acting inwards isolation from society, the majority elaborates in addition to clarifies fundamental constitutional doctrines patch likewise drawing on scholarship inwards police in addition to political scientific discipline that relates the doctrines to large social changes such equally industrialization, social movements such equally civil rights in addition to second-wave feminism, in addition to institutional tensions betwixt governmental actors. Combining legal analysis amongst historical narrative in addition to sensitivity to political context, the majority provides deeper understanding of how constitutional police arises, functions, in addition to changes inwards a complex, often-divided society.

Here is an excerpt from the Preface:

We approached this projection amongst ii goals inwards mind. First in addition to foremost, for the create goodness of students inwards police in addition to political scientific discipline in addition to interested members of the public, nosotros wanted to render a clear, accessible, balanced, in addition to intellectually sophisticated introduction to the patch of U.S. constitutional law. In our view, providing such an introduction requires closed attention both to the legal doctrine that is developed past times the U.S. Supreme Court and to the ideas most the Constitution that circulate inwards constitutional politics—especially within social movements, political parties, in addition to governmental institutions.

Second, past times carefully documenting the interaction betwixt judge-made constitutional police in addition to constitutional politics inwards almost every surface area of constitutional police that is covered inwards the basic course of education inwards police school, nosotros sought to brand an intellectual contribution of our own. We wanted to document non but “dialogue” betwixt the Constitution within in addition to exterior the courts, but likewise the extent to which each is shaped past times the other. In addition, nosotros wished to offering theoretical ideas, historical examples, in addition to citations to diverse literatures that scholars in addition to instructors inwards police in addition to political scientific discipline mightiness create goodness from consulting equally they pursue their ain inquiry in addition to teaching. Among many other things, readers volition uncovering discussions within these pages of the principal theories of constitutional interpretation; collective activeness federalism in addition to to a greater extent than formalist approaches to constitutional federalism; the ground over the theory of the unitary executive; the benefits in addition to costs of abandoning robust judicial protection of economical liberty; the iii principal mediating principles of constitutional equality, which model disagreements over race within both the Court in addition to American society; the ideology of the separate spheres for men in addition to women, which the women’s campaign sought—with substantial but incomplete success—to disestablish; in addition to the modern Court’s efforts to vindicate equality values inwards improver to freedom values nether noun due process.  

The introductory chapter, which provides an overview of the majority in addition to explains our approach, is available here.

The majority is right away available on Amazon.