¿Cuál es el papel adecuado de los tribunales en un Estado de Derecho? ¿Pueden reemplazar o "corregir" las decisiones de las legislaturas, integradas por personas elegidas por el voto de las mayorías? ¿Deberían compartir con el Congreso la potestad de interpretar las leyes? Dicho de otro modo, ¿quién debería tener la última palabra en la "traducción" de la Constitución y las leyes a la vida cotidiana?En este libro de extraordinaria influencia, que renovó de raíz el pensamiento jurídi...

How the Supreme Court's move to the right has distorted both logic and the ConstitutionWhat Supreme Court justices do is far more than just "calling balls and strikes." The Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings. Social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into the justices' impressions of how they think a case should be decided. Mark Tushnet traces the ways constitutional thought has evolved, fr...

A leading legal scholar asks a fundamental question: Do we need a theory of constitutional interpretation?Do we need a theory of constitutional interpretation? It is a common argument among originalists that however objectionable you may find their theory, at least they have one, whereas their opponents do not have any theory at all. But as Mark Tushnet argues, for most of the Supreme Court’s history, including some of its most exceptional periods, the Court operat...

El presente volumen recoge una selección de algunos de los últimos trabajos del profesor Mark Tushnet, centrados en el debate en torno al constitucionalismo y la Judicial Review que él acepta en su versión débil, en la medida que considera que solo así se garantizan en su justo medio, el auto-gobierno y el balance adecuado de los derechos. Algo que hay que destacar en la obra del profesor de Harvard es también su método analítico. Influenciado por el escepticismo de orientación realista, e...

"An incisive consideration of the Supremes, offering erudite yet accessible clues to legal thinking on the most important level."--Kirkus ReviewsIn this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been bet...

Here a leading scholar in constitutional law, Mark Tushnet, challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow U.S. judges to invalidate "unconstitutional" governmental actions. Many people, particularly liberals, have "warm and fuzzy" feelings about judicial review. They are nervous about what might happen to unprotected constitutional provisions in the chaotic worlds of practical politics and everyday life. By examining a wide range of situatio...

In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which the aspiration to achieve justice directly through law has been substantially chastened....

Anayasa hukukunda Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin önde gelen akademisyenlerinden Mark Tushnet bu eserinde, Singapur’u genişletilmiş bir örnek çalışma olarak kullanarak otoriter anayasacılık düşüncesini ele almaktadır. Otoriter anayasacılık, ifade hürriyetinin orta düzeyde baskıcı kontrolü ve kişisel hürriyetler üzerindeki sınırlamalarla makul ölçüde serbest ve adil seçimleri bir araya getiren bir hükûmet sistemi olarak tanımlanmaktadır. "Salt” hukuk devleti anayasacılığını da içermek üzere...

Tal vez piense que la Constitución importa porque protege nuestros derechos fundamentales. La respuesta que doy aquí es diferente: la Constitución importa porque da estructura a nuestro proceso político. Y es que la fuente última â? y a veces la inmediataâ? de cualquier protección que tengamos de nuestros derechos fundamentales no es la Constitución sino la política. Esta es una breve presentación de las razones por las cuales su primera respuesta, relacionada con los derechos fundamentale...

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak Courts, Strong Rights, Mark Tushnet us...

An examination of the initial years of the Roberts Court and the intellectual battle between Roberts and Kagan for leadership.When John Roberts was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, he said he would act as an umpire. Instead, his Court is reshaping legal precedent through decisions unmistakably—though not always predictably—determined by politics as much as by law, on a Court almost perfectly politically divided.Harvard Law School professor and ...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Mark Tushnet, a world-renowned scholar of constitutional law, has excelled in extending and revising his essential introduction to comp...