Progressive Constitutionalism - Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amemdment

"This book will be an extremely important and influential contribution to the literature. Readers will find the book of great help in understanding the important differences between various strands of constitutional and interpretative theory."--Mary E. Becker, University of Chicago Law School

List of contents

Introduction 1

Part I. Equal Protection of the Laws

1. Toward an Abolitionist Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment 9

2. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment 45

3. The Meaning of Equality and the Interpretive Turn 73

Part II. Due Process of law

4. Reconstructing Liberty 105

5. The Ideal of Liberty 129

6. Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect 144

Part III. Institutional Responsibilities

7. Constitutional Skepticism 155

8. The Authoritarian Impulse in Constitutional Law 190

9. Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism 211

10. The Aspirational Constitution 290

Notes 319

Index 355

About the author

Robin West is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, feminist legal theory, and law and literature. She is the author of Narrative, Authority, and Law.

Product details

• Authors: Robin L. West, West, Robin West, Robin L West, Robin L. West
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1994
• EAN: 9780822315254
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1525-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Constitutional Conflicts
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law