Law and the Protection of Democracy - Essays in Honor of Alfred C. Aman Jr

Highly topical collection of innovative essays on the protection of democracy by eminent contributors from the judiciary, the practicing legal profession, the academy, and the realm of journalism.

With international safeguards for democracy showing signs of fragility as they come under various forms of attack, the vitality of the legal imagination will be essential to the future of the democratic rule of law. This collection of essays undertakes an innovative and timely assessment of the legal system's capacity for self-renewal. In its focus on law as a creative project in the service of democracy, the volume honors Alfred C. Aman Jr., a distinguished law professor, administrator, jazz musician, and scholar. Aman's extensive body of work includes farsighted, and ultimately optimistic, writings drawing attention to the potential of law reform as a means of addressing democracy deficits in the United States.

This book provides a timely, even urgent, analysis of current challenges to democracy, tackling questions of Constitutional interpretation, separation of Church and State, press freedom, personhood, admissibility of evidence, environmental protection, and legal education, among other issues. Beyond current problems, authors consider resources for renewal in unexpected places, for example, looking to mentorship in legal education as support for democratic imagination and to processes of interpretation, improvisation, and generative dissonance as exemplified in music in ways that are relevant to law. The essays relate to the United States and other jurisdictions that, like the US, have fought hard for their freedoms and democracy through law.

Edited by Yvonne Cripps. Contributors: Nathan D. Alder, Dan Cole, Lloyd Green, Carol Greenhouse, David Hamilton, Jay Krishnan, Tzu-Yi Lin, Christiana Ochoa, Aviva Orenstein, Arantxa Recarte, Lauren Robel, Landyn Rookard, Susan Williams, Elisabeth Zoller.

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List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Yvonne Cripps

1. Alfred C. Aman Jr.: The Optimistic Scholar, Imaginative Teacher, and Selfless Mentor - Landyn Rookard

PART I: DEMOCRACY
2. Democracy and Justice - The Hon. Judge David F. Hamilton
3. A Free Press and Democracy - Lloyd Green

PART II: CONSTITUTIONS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND RIGHTS
4. Jefferson's Violin and Other Instruments of Constitutional Interpretation - Carol Greenhouse
5. Gender Equality and the Music of Constitutional Design - Susan Williams
6. Polyphony and Dissonance: State Courts, Individual Liberty, and Reproductive Rights - Lauren Robel
7. Laïcité: A Jarring Sound in Global Constitutionalism? - Élisabeth Zoller
8. Free Speech Jurisprudence in Taiwan: Variations on a Theme of U.S. Law - Tzu-Yi Lin

PART III: PROTECTING PERSONS
9. Protecting 'Persons' in a Technological Era - Yvonne Cripps
10. Executive Orders, Credible Commitments, and U.S. Climate Policy - Daniel Cole
11. Supporting the Presumption of Innocence and Addressing Systemic Racism: Reforming the Law of Evidence to Prohibit Impeaching Criminal Defendants with their Prior Crimes - Aviva Orenstein

PART IV: BUILDING INSTITUTIONS
12. Professional Identity Formation in the Legal Profession: Fred Aman, a Mentor, and Why Everyone Should Engage in Mentoring - Nathan Alder
13. Harmonizing International Migration and Legal Education - Jayanth Krishnan
14. In the Groove: The Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies - Christiana Ochoa and Arantxa Recarte

List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Index

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Edited by Yvonne Cripps

Product details

• Assisted by: Yvonne Cripps (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9781648250972
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-097-2
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law