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May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

by Peter H. Irons
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781565840522
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: New Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 400
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 563 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Civil Procedure, Law Enforcement, and Court Records

Now available in paperback, this bestselling collection of Supreme Court transcripts presents 23 of the most significant oral arguments made before the court since 1955. Also includes an introduction in which lawyers discuss their historic arguments, background to each of the cases, and excerpt s from the Courts opinions.

Peter H. Irons is emeritus professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation, including "Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision" and "A People's History of the Supreme Court." He is a co-editor of "May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955" (with Stephanie Guitton), "May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases," and "May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers," all published by The New Press. He has also contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He was chosen in 1988 as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University. He has been invited to lecture on constitutional law and civil liberties at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford and at more than twenty other schools. In addition to his academic work, Irons has been active in public affairs. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the 1980s in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal convictions of Japanese Americans who had challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Stephanie Guitton is a graduate of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a law degree from the University of Poitiers in France.

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