Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law

Vikram David Amar is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of California, Davis, and has been teaching and writing about constitutional law since 1993. He is coauthor of Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (2005) and of multiple volumes of the Wright and Miller Federal Practice and Procedure treatise. He writes a bi-weekly column on constitutional matters for findlaw.com. Mark V. Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the coauthor of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law. He has authored sixteen books and edited eight others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Abstract and Concrete Review--Michael C. Dorf: 2 Judicial Independence--Judith Resnik: 3 Federal Powers and the Principle of the Subsidiary--Daniel Halberstam: 4 Separation of Powers and Parliamentarian Government--Laurence P. Claus: 5 Property Rights--Gregory S. Alexander: 6 Abortion Rights--Radhika Rao: 7 Review of Laws Having Racially Disparate Impacts--Adrien Katherine Wing: 8 Affirmative Action and Benign Discrimination--Ashutosh Bhagwat: 9 Discrimination of the Basis of Sexual Orientation--Nan D. Hunter: 10 Review of Laws Having a Disparate Impact on Gender--Vicki C. Jackson: 11 Free Speech and the Incitement of Violence or Unlawful Behavior: Statutes Directed at Speech--Stephen G. Gey: 12 Free Speech and the Incitement of Violence or Unlawful Behavior: Statutes Not Specifically Directed at Speech--Stephen G. Gey: 13 Regulation of Hate Speech--Michael Rosenfeld: 14 Regulation of Campaign Finance--Richard L. Hasen: 15 Religious Freedom--Alan E. Brownstein: 16 State Action Doctrine--Frank I. Michelman: