Vol. 11 No. 4 (April 2001) pp. 136-137.
BOOK NOTICES:
JUDICIAL PROCESS IN AMERICA, fifth edition, by Robert A. Carp and Ronald Stidham. Washington, D. C.: CQ
Press, 2001. 425 pp. Paper $46.95. ISBN: 1-56802-509-2.
This book is the new edition of an undergraduate introduction to the judicial process previously reviewed in the
LPBR (Vol. 5 No. 2, February, 1995, pp. 65-67). This edition uses the same format as earlier editions and adds
a few comparative examples, a set of queries at the beginning of each chapter, and a glossary.
BUSH V. GORE: THE COURT CASE AND THE COMMENTARY by E. J. Dionne and William Kristol (Editors). Washington,
D. C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 346 pp. Paper $15.95. ISBN: 0-8157-0107-1.
The editors provide a collection of Florida and U. S. Supreme Court opinions on the 2000 presidential election
ballot dispute and advisory opinions of the Florida Secretary of State and Attorney General. Briefs are not included.
They also include 62 commentaries on the dispute published between November 7 and December 14, 2000. Most of the
commentary, the bulk of it written by political journalists, appeared in New York and Washington, D. C. newspapers.
Law professors and political scientists wrote approximately 12 of selections published in newspapers.
THE TROUBLE WITH PRINCIPLE by Stanley Fish. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 328 pp. Cloth $24.95.
ISBN: 0-674-91012-5. Paper $16.95. ISBN: 0-674-00534-1.
This volume consists largely of previously published materials - ten of sixteen chapters. The chapters independently
address a variety of legal and public policy topics such as freedom of speech, affirmative action, and aspects
of expressive freedom. As in another collection of his articles reviewed in the LPBR (Vol. 4 No. 3, March, 1994,
pp. 33-35), the author advances an attack on all forms of moral and neutral principles in law and politics, and
he asserts that any legal principle is inherently political, not principled.
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JOHN RAWLS: COLLECTED PAPERS by Samuel Freeman (Editor). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 672
pp. Cloth $42.95. ISBN: 0-674-13739-6. Paper $24.95. ISBN: 0-674-00569-4
This volume contains twenty-seven previously published articles written by the liberal political philosopher John
Rawls. The articles, most of which address the concepts of justice and equality, date from 1951 to 1998. This collection
contains virtually all of Rawls' published work not included in his THEORY OF JUSTICE (1971), POLITICAL LIBERALISM
(1993, 1996 paperback edition), THE LAW OF PEOPLES (1999), and, with Barbara Herman, LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (2000).
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: POWER AND POLITICS. VOLUME I CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL POWER by
Gregg Ivers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001. 592 pp. Paper $44.36. ISBN: 0-395-88983-9.
This new undergraduate constitutional law casebook opens with chapters on constitutional structure and constitutional
interpretation. It then offers chapters on judicial power, legislative power, executive power, congressional commerce
power, states' reserved powers, the contract clause, substantive due process, and the takings clause. Cases are
integrated -- and marked using bolder type -- into the author's discussion of their historical and political implications
and doctrinal importance. Most chapters offer a few "sidebars" or sections of a few pages with special
information on a specific case. The book comes with a CD-ROM of oral arguments and website with hypothetical problems
and appendices containing the Constitution, information on case briefing, and a guide to legal materials on the
Internet.
THE LANAHAN READINGS IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES by David M. O'Brien (Editor). Baltimore: Lanahan
Publishers, Inc., 1999. 319 pp. Paper $23.75. ISBN: 0-9652687-6-4.
In this compendium designed for undergraduate classes the editor includes selections from thirty-two books and
articles by civil liberties scholars and
commentators. Topics include due process - substantive and criminal procedural, freedom of expression and religion,
capital punishment, and social equality and personal liberty. Selections come from authors including Robert McCloskey,
Thomas Emerson, Nadine Strossen, Anthony Lewis, Richard Kliger, Stephen Carter, Walter Berns, Charles Black, Wendy
Williams, Ronald Dworkin, and Yale Kamisar.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS by John R. Wunder (Editor). New York: Garland Publishing Co.,
1999. 378 pp. Paper $26.95. ISBN: 0-8153-3630-6.
This collection includes thirteen previously published law review articles on the legal dimensions of disputes
about Native American cultural practices,
use of public lands, ownership of cultural artifacts, and the religious liberties. The editor provides a brief
introduction to the articles.