Website : Kermit Roosevelt at the University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia. Author of Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions; Conflict of Laws: Concepts and Insights; The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions; and In the Shadow of the Law.
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This carefully considered book is a welcome addition to the debate over "judicial activism." Constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt III offers an elegantly simple way to resolve the heated discord between conservatives, who argue that the Constitution is immutable, and progressives, who insist that it is a living document that must be reinterpreted in new cultural contexts so that...
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award
In the Shadow of the Law is the story of Morgan Siler, a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm that has transformed itself from a traditional practice serving those most in need into a shrewd giant serving the interests of the wealthy. Through the intertwined stories of a pro bono murder case and a class action lawsuit brought against a large chemical company,...
