Add to ORKGThe American lawyer\u27s well-advertised enthusiasm for taking even the flimsiest case to the highest court in the land is doubtless overdrawn. It is, nevertheless, true that the American bar-and the American people-have a long-standing penchant for constitutionalism, a penchant which was well developed when Tocqueville described it with clinical devotion more than a century ago. And a by-product of this phenomenon is the inescapable fact that very humble controversies have not infrequently reached the Supreme Court and provided the occasion for constitutional decisions of high consequence. It is especially noteworthy, and highly salutary, that the Supreme Court\u27s revisory authority over the courts of the several states is not trammele...
The controversy surrounding the judicial use of comparative constitutional law is not new. However, ...
We have recently been reminded that one of the current and recurrent quandaries of the Supreme Court...
BUT few words remain to be added to those so well spoken by my distinguished brethren, in concluding...
The American lawyer\u27s well-advertised enthusiasm for taking even the flimsiest case to the highe...
A country\u27s constitutional law is but a reflection of its political, economic, and social life. N...
Established by the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the Supreme Court is both the final arbiter of signifi...
State supreme courts occasionally rely on the provisions of their own state constitutions to expand ...
When the newly appointed Justices of the Supreme Court assembled in the Royal Exchange Building in N...
In a famous 1977 article, Justice William Brennan called on state courts to interpret the individual...
The text presents different attributes of the Supreme Court in common law and civil law systems. The...
The U.S. Supreme Court\u27s primary role in the history of the United States, especially in constitu...
The Supreme Court exercises far less constitutional authority in American law and practice than one ...
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every con...
What status do Supreme Court decisions have for officials in the political branches of our governmen...
II. Although dismissed by some commentators, the debate goes to the heart of constitutional interpre...
The controversy surrounding the judicial use of comparative constitutional law is not new. However, ...
We have recently been reminded that one of the current and recurrent quandaries of the Supreme Court...
BUT few words remain to be added to those so well spoken by my distinguished brethren, in concluding...
The American lawyer\u27s well-advertised enthusiasm for taking even the flimsiest case to the highe...
A country\u27s constitutional law is but a reflection of its political, economic, and social life. N...
Established by the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the Supreme Court is both the final arbiter of signifi...
State supreme courts occasionally rely on the provisions of their own state constitutions to expand ...
When the newly appointed Justices of the Supreme Court assembled in the Royal Exchange Building in N...
In a famous 1977 article, Justice William Brennan called on state courts to interpret the individual...
The text presents different attributes of the Supreme Court in common law and civil law systems. The...
The U.S. Supreme Court\u27s primary role in the history of the United States, especially in constitu...
The Supreme Court exercises far less constitutional authority in American law and practice than one ...
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every con...
What status do Supreme Court decisions have for officials in the political branches of our governmen...
II. Although dismissed by some commentators, the debate goes to the heart of constitutional interpre...
The controversy surrounding the judicial use of comparative constitutional law is not new. However, ...
We have recently been reminded that one of the current and recurrent quandaries of the Supreme Court...
BUT few words remain to be added to those so well spoken by my distinguished brethren, in concluding...