Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American Constitutional Law

by Jed Rubenfeld

Although constitutional law is supposed to be fixed and enduring, its central narrative in the twentieth century has been one of radical reinterpretation--Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Bush v. Gore. What, if anything, justifies such radical reinterpretation? How does it work doctrinally? What, if anything, structures it or limits it?

Jed Rubenfeld finds a pattern in American constitutional interpretation that answers these questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017153
• ISBN13: 9780674017153
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.8"