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Fourteen law school professors collaborated to write Civil Procedure Stories, which provides deeper understanding of the great civil procedure cases. Each professor wrote a short chapter on one of the cases, retelling the case in his or her own voice and by his or her own method. Each chapter includes separate sections on: Social and legal background of the case, Factual background of the case, Lower court proceedings in the case, Final appellate disposition, including issues, decisions, reasons, and separate opinions, Factual postscript to the case, Immediate impact of the case on the development of the law (why the case is famous and when it became so), Continuing importance of the case today (why it is still a leading case).

Dorf's Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status. This book is suitable for adoption as a supplement in an introductory constitutional law course or as a text for an advanced seminar. Contents:
Introduction: Putting the People Back in "We the People"
Chapter 1: The Story of Marbury v. Madison: Making Defeat Look Like Victory
Chapter 2: The Story of McCulloch: Banking on National Power
Chapter 3: The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Commerce
Chapter 4: The Story of Bush v. Gore: The Paradox of Judicial Activism
Chapter 5: The Story of Dred Scott: Originalism's Forgotten Past
Chapter 6: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson: The Death and Resurrection of Racial Formalism
Chapter 7: The Story of Korematsu: The Japanese–American Cases
Chapter 8: The Story of Baker v. Carr
Chapter 9: The Story of Lochner v. New York: Impediment to the Growth of the Regulatory State
Chapter 10: Contested Ground: The Story of Roe v. Wade and its Impact on American Society
Chapter 11: The Story of Whitney v. California: The Power of Ideas
Chapter 12: The Story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: The Pledge of Allegiance and the Freedom of Thought
Chapter 13: The Story of Al Smith: The First Amendment Meets Grandfather Peyote
Chapter 14: The Story of City of Boerne v. Flores: Federalism, Rights, and Judicial Supremacy
Chapter 15: The Story of the Guantánamo Cases: Habeas Corpus, the Reach of the Court, and the War on Terror

Beyond the Carceral State: Critically Teaching Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure webinar is the seventh in CLEA's Teaching Justice Webinar Series. This webinar is co-taught by Amna Akbar (Ohio State University Moritz College of Law) and Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law School).

This collection of case stories illustrates the balance, continuity, and evolution in substantive criminal law doctrine in light of the social and political contexts in which those doctrines are perennially tested. These stories focus on the pre-litigation behavior of defendants, raising important moral and cultural questions about human nature and human society and how social norms get translated into workable legal doctrines. They survey the typical variety of doctrines addressed in a standard criminal law course, elucidating the classic themes of common law jurisprudence.

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