Civil Rights Actions - Enforcing the Constitution

Summary

Provides the most complete treatment available of constitutional tort actions under 42 USC § 1983 and Bivens. The elaborate and increasingly controversial doctrines of official immunity are examined in detail, as is the possibility of direct governmental liability under Monell v. Dept. of Social Services.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald G. Ashdown, Ronald J. Bacigal, Sharon G. Finegan, Adam M. Gershowitz, John C. Jeffries Jr., Pamela S. Karlan, Peter W. Low, George A. Rutherglen
• Publisher: West Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2022
• EAN: 9781685610272
• ISBN: 978-1-68561-027-2
• No. of pages: 1173
• Dimensions: 264 mm x 201 mm x 50 mm
• Weight: 2148 g
• Series: University Casebook Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law