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The Conservative Assault on the Constitution - Erwin Chemerinsky
Don't miss Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation with Joel Richard Paul.
Life sentences for shoplifting? The rejection of a convicted person’s “actual innocence” as a reason to call off their execution? Increasingly separate and unequal public schools? According to constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, these are the result of conservative political pressure and a series of Supreme Court decisions that have shifted the courts dramatically to the right. In this engrossing and disturbing book, Chermerinsky examines the conservative movement that began with resistance to the Civil Rights reforms of the 1960s and has resulted in an eroding of the constitution and a radical redefinition of the role of the President.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is the author of a leading textbook on constitutional law and a graduate of the Harvard Law School. He has argued numerous cases before the U. S. Supreme Court.
Joel Richard Paul (left) is a professor and associate dean at the University of California Hastings Law School where he teaches constitutional law and international economic law. He has published books and articles in the United States and abroad on foreign relations law, globalization, and private international law. His recent history of the American Revolution, UNLIKELY ALLIES: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution, was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post.
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