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The U.S. Supreme Court and Contemporary Constitutional Law: The Obama Era and Its Legacy

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 2018

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The book explores the changes in U.S. constitutional law in the years of the Obama presidency. It illustrates that the U.S. Supreme Court has shaped, through several landmark judgments, the content of U.S. constitutional doctrine across different legal fields. The book brings together renowned constitutional law scholars from the US and Europe to reconstruct, analyze and explain these developments and their continuing significance.

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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-3-8487-4796-2
ISBN-Online
978-3-8452-8949-6
Publisher
Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language
English
Pages
312
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

ChapterPages
  1. Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access 1 - 6
  2. Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen, Johannes Saurer
    1. I. Context No access Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen, Johannes Saurer
    2. II. Taking stock: The constitutional legacy of the Obama era No access Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen, Johannes Saurer
    3. III. Comparative Approach No access Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen, Johannes Saurer
    4. IV. Outlook No access Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Niels Petersen, Johannes Saurer
  3. Samuel Issacharoff
    1. I. Introduction No access Samuel Issacharoff
    2. II. The Political Cases No access Samuel Issacharoff
    3. Samuel Issacharoff
      1. A. Abortion No access Samuel Issacharoff
      2. B. Death Penalty No access Samuel Issacharoff
      3. C. Marriage Equality No access Samuel Issacharoff
      4. IV. Courts in the Executive Era No access Samuel Issacharoff
  4. Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
    1. I. Introduction No access Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
    2. II. Theoretical Background No access Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
    3. III. The Politics of Nomination and Confirmation No access Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
    4. IV. Judicial Behavior on the Bench No access Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
    5. V. Conclusion No access Moohyung Cho, Jason Douglas Todd, Georg Vanberg
  5. Jud Mathews
    1. I. No access Jud Mathews
    2. II. No access Jud Mathews
    3. III. No access Jud Mathews
  6. Mathias Hong
    1. I. Obama’s critique of Citizens United in his State of the Union Address of 2010: inappropriate but essentially true No access Mathias Hong
    2. II. Citizens United – rightly decided on its specific facts but mainly for the wrong reasons No access Mathias Hong
    3. III. Money is not speech – and therefore paying for speech does not have to be protected equally strong as speaking No access Mathias Hong
    4. IV. Corporations are not persons – and therefore do not necessarily have to be entitled to the same speech rights as persons in every respect No access Mathias Hong
    5. V. Anti-corruption and equalization – different only in degree, not in kind No access Mathias Hong
    6. VI. How much equalization is compatible with free speech rights? Balancing and categorical rules do not exclude each other No access Mathias Hong
    7. VII. The original meaning of “abridging the freedom of speech” No access Mathias Hong
    8. VIII. Europe and Germany No access Mathias Hong
    9. IX. Conclusion No access Mathias Hong
  7. Patricia Egli
    1. I. Introduction No access Patricia Egli
    2. Patricia Egli
      1. A. United States v. Comstock: Constraining the Necessary and Proper Clause? No access Patricia Egli
      2. B. NFIB v. Sebelius: The Obamacare Case No access Patricia Egli
      3. C. Shelby County v. Holder: Federalism and Voting Rights No access Patricia Egli
      4. D. Arizona v. United States: Preemption No access Patricia Egli
    3. III. Expanding or Taming Congress’s Powers? No access Patricia Egli
    4. IV. Conclusion No access Patricia Egli
  8. Amanda Frost
    1. Amanda Frost
      1. A. Unauthorized Immigration in the United States No access Amanda Frost
      2. B. The Role of the Federal and State Governments in Setting Immigration Policy No access Amanda Frost
    2. Amanda Frost
      1. Amanda Frost
        1. 1. Arizona’s Attempt to Change Federal Enforcement Policies No access Amanda Frost
        2. 2. The Supreme Court’s Opinion No access Amanda Frost
        3. 3. The Preemptive Power of Prosecutorial Discretion No access Amanda Frost
      2. B. United States v. Texas No access Amanda Frost
    3. III. Drawing the Connections No access Amanda Frost
  9. Michaela Hailbronner
    1. I. International Trends No access Michaela Hailbronner
    2. II. Why due process? No access Michaela Hailbronner
    3. III. Conclusion No access Michaela Hailbronner
  10. Oliver Lepsius
    1. Oliver Lepsius
      1. A. The rights revolution and the conservative backlash No access Oliver Lepsius
      2. B. Originalism as a promise of neutrality No access Oliver Lepsius
      3. C. The “king of the originalists” No access Oliver Lepsius
      4. D. Obama’s presidency and the need to react to originalism No access Oliver Lepsius
      5. E. The future of originalism No access Oliver Lepsius
    2. Oliver Lepsius
      1. A. “A well regulated Militia” No access Oliver Lepsius
      2. B. Which history? No access Oliver Lepsius
      3. C. Texts or Precedents? No access Oliver Lepsius
      4. D. Disguised activism No access Oliver Lepsius
      5. E. Limiting the new right No access Oliver Lepsius
    3. Oliver Lepsius
      1. A. Absence of precedents No access Oliver Lepsius
      2. B. The living constitution is alive No access Oliver Lepsius
      3. C. Formalism has found a new form No access Oliver Lepsius
      4. D. Originalism in theory and originalism in practice No access Oliver Lepsius
      5. E. Interdisciplinary issues No access Oliver Lepsius
  11. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
    1. Introduction No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
    2. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
      1. A. Protection of For-Profit Corporations No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
      2. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
        1. 1. Substantial Burden No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
        2. 2. Least Restrictive Means No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
    3. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
      1. A. Constitutional or Statutory Protection No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
      2. B. Religion vs. Integration/ Religion vs. Individual Rights No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
      3. III. Conclusion No access Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
  12. Thomas Wischmeyer
    1. I. Introduction No access Thomas Wischmeyer
    2. II. U.S. Constitutional Law: Privacy Lost No access Thomas Wischmeyer
    3. III. A Widening Transatlantic Gap: The CJEU and the hyper-constitutionalization of privacy No access Thomas Wischmeyer
    4. IV. The Institutional Dimension of Transatlantic Data Flow Regulation Between Under- and Over-Constitutionalization No access Thomas Wischmeyer
    5. V. Conclusion No access Thomas Wischmeyer
  13. Thomas Kleinlein
    1. I. Introduction No access Thomas Kleinlein
    2. II. Challenges, Political and Legal No access Thomas Kleinlein
    3. Thomas Kleinlein
      1. A. Treaty Clause of the U.S. Constitution and Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 No access Thomas Kleinlein
      2. B. Legislative Debate on ISDS: Unsuccessful Contestation No access Thomas Kleinlein
      3. C. The Role of ‘Obama’s Court’ No access Thomas Kleinlein
    4. Thomas Kleinlein
      1. A. A Mixed Agreement No access Thomas Kleinlein
      2. B. Rule of Law No access Thomas Kleinlein
      3. C. Democratic Deficit No access Thomas Kleinlein
      4. D. Autonomy of EU law No access Thomas Kleinlein
    5. V. Different Functions of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the U.S. Supreme Court No access Thomas Kleinlein
  14. Marc Jacob
    1. I. Introduction No access Marc Jacob
    2. Marc Jacob
      1. A. The beginnings of transnational public law litigation No access Marc Jacob
      2. B. Between hubris and provincialism No access Marc Jacob
      3. C. Consequences of Kiobel No access Marc Jacob
    3. Marc Jacob
      1. A. Floodgates and the challenges of municipal civil redress No access Marc Jacob
      2. B. Unwarranted judicial interference No access Marc Jacob
    4. Marc Jacob
      1. A. International law can accommodate extraterritorial jurisdiction No access Marc Jacob
      2. B. International law depends on domestic mechanisms No access Marc Jacob
      3. C. Comity and foreign relations No access Marc Jacob
    5. V. Conclusions No access Marc Jacob
  15. Susanne Baer
    1. I. Who “owns” a court? No access Susanne Baer
    2. II. A Human Factor No access Susanne Baer
    3. III. Raw numbers? No access Susanne Baer
    4. IV. Urgent Calls to Understand the Institution No access Susanne Baer
    5. V. A Good Court? No access Susanne Baer
    6. Susanne Baer
      1. A. A Court’s Independence No access Susanne Baer
      2. B. The Standing of Constitutional Courts No access Susanne Baer
      3. C. Embedded constitutionalism No access Susanne Baer
    7. VII. Courts that deserve the Label No access Susanne Baer
  16. Justin Collings
    1. Introduction No access Justin Collings
    2. I. Structure No access Justin Collings
    3. II. Style No access Justin Collings
    4. Justin Collings
      1. A. Historical Argument No access Justin Collings
      2. B. Textual Argument No access Justin Collings
      3. C. Doctrinal Argument No access Justin Collings
      4. D. Ethical Argument No access Justin Collings
    1. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT No access
    2. UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURTS No access
    3. EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS No access
    4. EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE No access
    5. GERMAN FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT No access
    6. GERMAN FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT No access
    7. OTHER No access
  18. Contributors No access 311 - 312

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