Remnants of Belief: Contemporary Constitutional Issues

by Louis Michael Seidman, Mark V. Tushnet

Designed as a supplement for constitutional law courses and seminars, this text by Seidman and Tushnet uses examples drawn from the popular press, public discussion and law articles to show how and why constittional debate has evolved into the political conundrum it has become. They examine the debates on issues such as free speech, criminal procedure, discrimination, and capital punishment, and the views of Robert Bork, Laurence Tribe, Cass Sunstein, and other prominent figures in the field.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published March 7, 1996

About the author

Louis Michael Seidman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He then was a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the Law Center faculty in 1976. He teaches a variety of courses in the fields of constitutional and criminal law. He is co-author of a constitutional law casebook and the author of many articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law. His most recent books are Silence and Freedom (Stanford 2007), Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Yale 2001) and Equal Protection of the Laws (Foundation 2002).