Vol. 10 No. 7 (July 2000) pp. 406-407.
BOOK NOTICES:
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPREME COURT QUOTATIONS by Christopher Anzalone (Editor). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000.
395 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN: 0-7656-0485-X.
The author presents more than 1,500 quotations from more than 1,000 Supreme Court opinions. Most quotations
are several sentences long. He groups the
quotations in thirteen chapters with title such as "Givers of the Law," "The Enforcers," and
Expectations and Deliverance." The volume contains a copy of the Constitution and nearly one hundred pages
of summaries of Supreme Court decisions keyed to each quotation. Also, there is a table of justices keyed to
the quotations and a keyword index so users can find quotations from a justice's opinions on a specific topic such
as "automobiles," "human suffering," or
"capital punishment."
PUBLIC LAW AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, third edition, by Phillip J. Cooper. Itasca, IL: F. E. Peacock, Publishers,
2000. 740 pp. Cloth, price not listed. ISBN:0-87581-421-2.
Designed for use in advanced political science and public administration courses, this new edition of the author's
treatise addresses a wide range of topics. It includes chapters on the nature of the legal system, legal resources,
the history of American administrative law, politics in administration, information policy, the law and public
employees, and several chapters each on formal rulemaking and informal uses of administrative discretion.
SEX, RACE, AND MERIT: DEBATING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT by Faye J. Crosby and Cheryl VanDeVeer
(Editors). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 352 pp. Cloth $60.00. ISBN: 0-472-09734-2. Paper $22.95.
ISBN 0-472-06734-6.
This volume brings together twelve previously published newspaper and seventeen previously published scholarly
articles and selections from scholarly books
about affirmative action. It also contains selections from nine United States Supreme Court cases and other legal
materials that address the issue. The authors provide an introduction to the issue, a chronology of the affirmative
action debate, and an extensive list of references. The book seems to be designed for use as a course supplement
on the topic.
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LAW by George S. Grossman (Editor). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. 492 pp. Paper
$24.00. ISBN: 0-8133-6782-4.
This collection of thirty-three readings is intended as a broad introduction to the history of American law.
It includes selections from both original and
primary sources on the European and native American roots of the law, the law from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and on possible legal futures.
Many of the readings address specific legal-political controversies and issues of civil liberties.
THE SUPREME COURT REVIEW 1999 by Dennis J. Hutchinson, David A. Strauss, and Geoffrey R. Stone (Editors). Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. 434 pp. $54.00. ISBN: 0-226-36317-1.
The 1999 edition of this yearbook, which concentrates on doctrinal change, features three articles on aspects of
federalism, two articles on associational
rights that consider CITY OF CHICAGO v. MORALES (1999), and articles on Fourth Amendment privacy, class actions,
and bankruptcy.
THE MIRANDA DEBATE: LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLICING by Richard A. Leo and George C. Thomas III (Editors). Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 2000. 399 pp. Paper $24.95. ISBN: 1-55553-422-8.
This volume includes twenty-four selections, almost all previously published, onissues raised by MIRANDA v.
ARIZONA (1966). The selections address the
opinions, the ethical debate about the case, the empirical evidence of the case's policy impact, and the future
of the decision. Recent Supreme Court action on MIRANDA in DICKERSON v. UNITED STATES (2000) is not discussed.
THE LIMITS OF THE LAW: ESSAYS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE by Peter H. Schuck. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.
492 pp. Cloth $75.00. ISBN: 0-8133-6759-X. Paper $32.00. ISBN: 0-8133-6758-1.
This volume contains thirteen of the author's previously published articles on a wide range of legal topics.
The topics include legal complexity, multiculturalism, federalism, regulation, administrative law, mass torts,
and public law litigation. Most of the essays raise questions of the legitimacy of
contemporary uses of the law as an instrument for policy change. The articles are analytical and critical rather
than empirical.