Seminar: The Supreme Court and Public Policy
Professor Manoj Mate, Spring 2025
Last Updated: Jan 16, 2025 2:42 PM
Course Texts
REQUIRED
RECOMMENDED
- RICHARD H. FALLON, THE DYNAMIC CONSTITUTION: AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2d ed 2013) (ebook)
- STEVE VLADECK, THE SHADOW DOCKET (2023) (request only)
- LINDA GREENHOUSE, JUSTICE ON THE BRINK: A REQUIEM FOR THE SUPREME COURT (2024)(ebook)
- JOAN BISKUPIC, THE CHIEF (2018) (hardcover book)
- LAWRENCE BAUM, THE SUPREME COURT (11th ed 2013) (hardcover book) (2023?)
- JUSTIN DRIVER, THE SCHOOLHOUSE GATE: PUBLIC EDUCATION, THE SUPREME COURT, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN MIND (2018) (hardcover book)
Additional readings on constitutional interpretation and other topics:
- RICHARD FALLON, LAW AND LEGITIMACY IN THE SUPREME COURT (2018)
- JACK BALKIN, MEMORY AND AUTHORITY: THE USES OF HISTORY IN CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION (2025)
- JONATHAN GIENAPP, AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL ORIGINALISM: A HISTORICAL CRITIQUE (2024)
- JAMAL GREENE, HOW RIGHTS WENT WRONG: WHY OUR OBSESSION WITH RIGHTS IS TEARING AMERICA APART (2021)
- AZIZ RANA, THE CONSTITUTIONAL BIND (2025)
- MARY ZIEGLER, AFTER ROE: THE LOST HISTORY OF THE ABORTION DEBATE (2015)
- MICHAEL KLARMAN: FROM JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQULITY (2004)