Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991

by Mark Tushnet and Mark V. Tushnet

Book Overview

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice. Based on thorough research in the Supreme Court papers of Justice Marshall and others, this book describes Marshall's approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093143
• ISBN13: 9780195093148
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"