Category Archives: ELB Book Corner

ELB Book Corner: George Thomas: “The Inescapability of Constitutional Judgment”

June 29, 2022, 6:56 amELB Book Corner, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner George Thomas, author of The (Un)Written Constitution. Here is the final of three posts: In the first post I pointed out that unwritten understandings play a central role in… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: George Thomas: “The Constructed Constitution”

June 28, 2022, 6:00 amELB Book Corner, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner George Thomas, author of The (Un)Written Constitution. Here is the second of three posts: In the first post, I pointed to the unwritten ideas that constitutional interpretation necessarily rests… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: George Thomas: “There’s So Much That’s Not in the Constitution”

June 27, 2022, 7:00 amELB Book Corner, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner George Thomas, author of The (Un)Written Constitution. Here is the first of three posts: As we prepare for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the country is… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Gibson and Nelson: “State Supreme Courts and the Dominant Partisan Regime”

October 13, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book Corner, judicial electionsRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, authors of the new book, Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis. (Readers using this link and the code JUDGING… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Gibson and Nelson: “The Advance of Conservative State High Courts”

October 12, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book Corner, judicial electionsRick Hasen

ELB Book Corner: Gibson and Nelson: “Judging Inequality: Enormous Variation in State High Courts’ Willingness to Advance Equality”

October 11, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book Corner, judicial electionsRick Hasen

ELB Book Corner: Primo and Milyo (Post 4 of 4): The Road Ahead for Campaign Finance Reform

September 2, 2021, 7:00 amcampaign finance, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner David Primo and Jeff Milyo, writing about their new book, Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What The Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters (U Chicago Press 2020). Here is… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Primo and Milyo (Post 3 of 4): Campaign Finance Laws Won’t “Fix” American Democracy

September 1, 2021, 7:00 amcampaign finance, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

ELB Book Corner: Primo and Milyo (Post 2 of 4): The Cynical Public

August 31, 2021, 7:00 amcampaign finance, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

ELB Book Corner: Primo and Milyo (Post 1 of 4): Ignorance About Campaign Finance Reform Is Not Bliss

August 30, 2021, 7:00 amcampaign finance, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash (Post 3 of 3): The Fight for Black Suffrage: Documenting the History of the Fifteenth Amendment

August 11, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I’m delighted to welcome my friend and former colleague Kurt Lash to the ELB Book Corner, for the third of three guest posts on his exceedingly important collection, The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents. Here’s Kurt: In my last two… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash (Post 2 of 3): Documenting the Second Founding: The Road From the Founding to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

August 10, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I’m delighted to welcome my friend and former colleague Kurt Lash to the ELB Book Corner, for the second of three guest posts on his exceedingly important collection, The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents. Here’s Kurt: The adoption of the… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash (Post 1 of 3): “The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents” (2 volumes) (Kurt T. Lash, ed.) (University of Chicago Press, 2021)– A New and Unprecedented Collection of Historical Materials

August 9, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I’m delighted to welcome my friend and former colleague Kurt Lash to the ELB Book Corner, for a series of three guest posts on his exceedingly important collection, The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents. Here’s Kurt: University of Chicago Press… Continue reading

Coming Next Week to the ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash on His New Two-Volume Collection, The Reconstruction Amendments

August 4, 2021, 9:53 amELB Book CornerRick Hasen

Very much looking forward to Kurt’s posts about his new book collection.

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