Mark V. Tushnet, Author . Norton $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-05868-0
In this balanced, insightful assessment of the dynamics of today's Supreme Court (which may change very soon, with Chief Justice Rehnquist's illness), Tushnet, a constitutional law scholar at Georgetown, says that, in addition to the obvious
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Mark V. Tushnet, Author Oxford University Press $145 (416p) ISBN 978-0-19-508412-2
Though this book covers some of the same ground as more popular histories like Richard Kluger's Simple Justice , Tushnet offers a more detailed and nuanced look at the workings of NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers and the internal arguments at the...
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Mark V. Tushnet, Author Oxford University Press, USA $19.95 (156p) ISBN 978-0-19-530424-4
For Harvard Law professor Tushnet, the long-lived culture war over the Second Amendment is less about the Constitution than ""how we understand ourselves as Americans."" That said, the lion's share of the book is dedicated to a penetrating textual...
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Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen, and Joseph Blocher. New York Univ., $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4798-8028-7
Lay readers might not typically consider Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schönberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” to be protected expressions under the First Amendment, but law professors Tushnet, Chen, and Blocher effectively...
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