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MARITAL STRIFE: Same-Sex Marriage And The Constitution
AUTHORS: Charles J. Cooper and William N. Eskridge Jr.
Charles J. Cooper is a partner in Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. He represents the official proponents of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that amended the California Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage in the case Perry v. Brown.
William N. Eskridge Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School. He has authored an amicus brief arguing against the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
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CHECKUP: Health Care Reform
and the Constitution
AUTHORS: David Cole and Elizabeth Price Foley
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (The New Press 2009).
Elizabeth Price Foley is the Institute for Justice chair in constitutional litigation and professor of law at Florida International University College of Law. Her research centers on the intersection of health care and constitutional law. She is the author of Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (Yale University Press 2006) and The Law of Life and Death (Harvard University Press 2011), and she is at work on a book about the Tea Party, forthcoming in early 2012 from Cambridge University Press
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Battleground: War Powers and the Constitution
AUTHORS: John Yoo and Jules Lobel
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He served as an official in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003.
Jules Lobel is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. On behalf of the Center, he represented members of Congress suing President George H.W. Bush over his assertion of unilateral authority to initiate war against Iraq and represented members of Congress challenging President Bill Clinton’s 1999 Kosovo air war.
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Power in Numbers: Reapportionment and the Constitution
AUTHOR: Earl M. Maltz
Earl M. Maltz is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. He is the author of eight books and many articles on constitutional law and constitutional history and has served as a senior content consultant at the National Constitution Center. His latest book is entitled Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage.
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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? Wikileaks and the Constitution
AUTHOR: Geoffrey R.Stone
Professor Stone is a National Constitution Center Visiting Scholar. This monograph is based on his December 16, 2010, testimony to the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on proposed amendments to the Espionage Act and the legal and constitutional issues raised by WikiLeaks.
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BENCH BRAWL: Judicial Confirmations and the Constitution
AUTHOR: Lyle Denniston
Lyle Denniston is the senior journalist at the U.S. Supreme Court, which he has covered since 1958. His work now appears primarily at www.scotusblog.com. Denniston is the author of The Reporter and the Law: Techniques of Covering the Courts. He regularly moderates programs on the Supreme Court and the Constitution at the National Constitution Center.
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BIRTH RIGHTS: Citizenship and the Constitution
AUTHOR: Linda R. Monk, J.D.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. is a constitutional scholar andlegal journalist; author of The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. Visiting Scholar at the NCC in 2003, and current Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of the American South at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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