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September 15, 2005
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Cato Supreme Court Review Highlights Confusions of a Changing Court
Washington--The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies will release on September 21 the fourth edition of the Cato Supreme Court Review,
an annual critique of the Court’s most important decisions from the
term just ended, plus a look at the term ahead. This is the first
scholarly review to appear after the term’s
end. And it is the only review to analyze the Court with a Madisonian
concern for liberty and limited government.
In their introductions to this year’s Review, publisher Roger Pilon and editor Mark Moller
criticize the current Court for
failing to live up to its early promise. As Pilon explains, in a
Foreword that takes Harvard’s Laurence Tribe to task, modern
conservative jurists, like the liberals they criticize, fundamentally
misconceive the Constitution’s plan for liberty and limited government.
Moller echoes that point by
highlighting the growing rift between conservatives like Justice
Scalia, who favor judicial inaction, and those who urge judges to be
active in limiting federal power and securing constitutional liberties,
as reflected in the pages of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
Included in this year’s edition: Chicago’s Richard Epstein on
Progressivism and the Constitution; Vanderbilt’s James Ely Jr. on this
term’s much-criticized property rights decisions; Pepperdine’s Douglas
Kmiec, Ronald Reagan’s top constitutional lawyer, on the state of the
Rehnquist Court’s
“federalism revolution”; Cardozo’s Marci Hamilton on the Ten
Commandments decisions; Temple’s David Post, a cyberlaw expert and Volokh Conspiracy
contributor, on the Grokster decision; noted Supreme Court litigator
Daniel Troy on business’s First Amendment rights; Pilon on Scalia’s
defense
of police inaction in the Castle Rock case; and Case Western’s Jonathan Adler on the term ahead.
The Review will be released at Cato's 4th annual Constitution Day Conference on Wednesday, September 21, 2005.
All four editions of the Cato Supreme Court Review are available for purchase and downloading at Cato’s website, http://www.cato.org/pubs/scr
About the Editor: Mark Moller is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute.
Prior to joining Cato, he
practiced law with the appellate practice group at the law firm of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he served on the team that
represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore.
Cato Supreme Court Review, 2004-2005
Edited by Mark K. Moller
Published annually by the Cato Institute in September
Retail price: $15.00 paperback, 360 pages
ISBN: 1-930865-58-9
Since 1992 the Cato Institute’s books have been distributed to the trade by the National Book Network (www.nbnbooks.com).
Contact:
Roger Pilon, vice president for legal affairs, rpilon@cato.org
Mark Moller, senior fellow, constitutional studies, mmoller@cato.org
Kristen Kestner, media manager, 202-789-5212, kkestner@cato.org
Evans Pierre, director of broadcasting, 202-789-5204, epierre@cato.org
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