Author Meets Readers: Whittington, Repugnant Laws

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

Repugnant Laws is the first history of judicial review of federal laws that catalogues every statute the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional. In addition to the Heraclean effort to catalogue those decisions, many of which have been hitherto unknown, the text challenges conventional wisdom in both the law academy and political science on when and how the justices exercise the power of judicial review. A panel of leading experts with diverse perspectives with discuss Whittington's contribution to political science, law and history.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Institute for Constitutional Studies

Chair

• Mark A. Graber University of Maryland Carey School of Law

Presenters

• Julie L. Novkov University at Albany, SUNY

• John W. Compton Chapman University

• Greg Weiner Assumption College

• Leslie Friedman Goldstein Emeritus, University of Delaware

• Sanford Levinson University of Texas, Austin

• Keith E. Whittington Princeton University