Teachers and the Law

Jonathan Gienapp (Author)

Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique

9,A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority "What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we understand America's founding? Jonathan Gienapp . . . has written such a book. . . . You read it, and you get vertigo. . . . Gienapp's book comes as a thunderclap."--Cass Sunstein, Washington Post Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, 2025 - History Today Book of the Year, 2024 Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet--that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning--has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic. And now that a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court champion originalism, the task of scrutinizing originalists' use and abuse of history has never been more urgent. In this comprehensive and novel critique of originalism, Jonathan Gienapp targets originalists' unspoken assumptions about the Constitution and its ...

U S Government Printing Office (Editor)

Bound Congressional Record: Part 4

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States

Jill Marshall (Editor)

Personal Identity and the European Court of Human Rights

In this new and burgeoning field in legal and human rights thought, this edited collection explor