ISSN 1062-7421 Vol. 12 No. 4 (April 2002) pp. 160-161.
Book Notices:
SUPREME COURT CASES ON POLITICAL REPRESENTATION, 1787-2001 by Christopher A. Anzalone (Editor). Armonk,
NY: M E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002. 822 pp. Cloth $134.95. ISBN: 0-7656-0710-7.
This volume reprints, with only a sentence of commentary at the beginning of each of its eight chapters and no
opinion headnotes, 409 edited opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States on voting rights, poll taxes and
literacy tests, apportionment, the census, candidacy, political parties, campaign finance, election procedures,
initiatives and referenda, loyalty oaths, and related issues. Appendices include the Constitution, a table of cases,
a keyword index, and an extensive bibliography
LAW AND MEDICINE: CRITICAL LEGAL ISSUES 2000 VOLUME 3 by Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis (Editors). New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 584 pp. Cloth $120.00. ISBN: 0-19-829918-4.
The volume includes papers presented on a wide variety of topics largely about British law and medicine presented
at a colloquium held at University College London in 1999. Authors from Austria, Australia, and the United States
were authors of a few of the papers. The 31 papers address the law and the provision of healthcare and malpractice,
privacy in treatment, genetics and cloning, the care of children, reproductive technology, biomedical research,
organ donation, euthanasia, and mental health. The editors provide an introduction to the essays.
JUDICIAL REVIEW HANDBOOK, 3d edition, by Michael Fordham. Oxford: Hart Publishing Co., 2001. 1,139 pp. Cloth
$110.00. ISBN: 1-84113-238-1.
The author presents a new edition of his comprehensive treatise on judicial review of public administrative bodies
and public law functions in England and Wales. Part I provides a brief outline of judicial review and the statutes
and rules of procedure that govern its practice. Part II is a very detailed guide, replete with comprehensive case
citations, of the nature of judicial review (jurisdiction, procedural rules, legislative supremacy, the role of
EC law, remedies, and several other topics), the parameters of judicial review (legitimate interpretative practices),
and
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the grounds for judicial review (types of public wrongs that justify judicial intervention). Part III includes
brief synopses of 4,022 cases cited in the treatise.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT: VOLUME I by Richard S. Randall. New York:
Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2002. 630 pp. Paper $51.00. ISBN: 0-8013-2019-4.
In this new undergraduate casebook the author presents the material largely in historical sequence. There are chapters
on the colonial origins of American constitutional ideas, the confederation period, the framing, the Supreme Court's
opinions to 1837, the slavery issue and federalism, and three chapters covering economic development with associated
contract clause, commerce clause, and federalism opinions to the end of the New Deal. Later chapters consider the
modern presidency, post-World War II federalism, and recent contracts and takings clause decisions. The author
places the edited cases after his essays. The book also contains boxed inserts on assorted topics and appendices
on Court procedures, the justices, and Internet and library research, as well as a glossary, extensive bibliography,
and other end material.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 14th edition, by Kathleen M. Sullivan and Gerald Gunther. New York: Foundation Press,
2001. 1,578 pp. Cloth $72.50. ISBN: 1-56662-907-1.
This edition of the wide-used law school casebook on constitutional law retains the same format as previous editions.
As with past editions the authors' approach is to view constitutional interpretation more as a legal than a political
activity and to pose hypothetical problems for students' consideration.
Correction: The title page of the review of FLAG BURNING AND FREE SPEECH: THE CASE OF TEXAS V. JOHNSON; FLAG BURNING:
MORAL PANIC AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF PROTEST should list the author's name as Michael Welch.