Peter H Irons
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English
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"Winner of the J. Willard Hurst Award, Law and Society Association" Peter H. Irons is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Justice at War: The Inside Story of the Japanese American Internment (Oxford) and The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (Free Press/Viking Penguin).
From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies,...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Publisher's description: Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Stephen Breyer, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall,...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"White Men's Law recounts and explores the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans "in their place" from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present. The book argues that African Americans have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions-especially the legal and educational systems-that hold power over them. Based on a wide range of sources,...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Samuel Alito, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. However, Peter Irons writes that today many of our schools are even more segregated than they were on the day when Brown was decided. In this groundbreaking legal history, Irons explores the 150-year struggle against Jim Crow education, showing how the great victory over segregation was won, then lost again. The...
