Research Catalog

Title

Courts and the culture wars / edited by Bradley C.S. Watson.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-

Description

xxv, 209 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Culture and law
• United States > Social life and customs
• Political questions and judicial power > United States
• Civil rights > United States
• Judge-made law > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Courts and the culture wars / Robert H. Bork -- From Ockham to Blackmun : the philosophical roots of liberal jurisprudence / Francis Canavan -- The death of the legalized constitution and the specter of judicial review / Keith E. Whittington -- The culture of death, the higher law, and the courts / Charles E. Rice -- Who owns the right to privacy? / Jeremy Rabkin -- Tolerance and American constitutionalism : the case of gay rights / Murray Dry -- Religious freedom without religious neutrality : our once and future constitutional common sense / Graham Walker -- Stare decisis : conservatism's one-way ratchet problem / John C. Eastman -- The California Supreme Court in the culture wars : a case study in judicial failure / Edward J. Erler -- Courts, culture, and community : rescuing constitutional supremacy from judicial supremacy / Christopher P. Manfredi -- The Voting Rights Act and the politics of multiculturalism : the challenge to commercial republicanism at century's turn / Anthony A. Peacock.

Call Number

JFE 02-22327

ISBN

• 0739104144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0739104152 (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002004874

OCLC

49495013

Title

Courts and the culture wars / edited by Bradley C.S. Watson.

Imprint

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-

Research Call Number

JFE 02-22327