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May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution [With Four 90-Minute Audiocassettes] Boxed set - 2000

by Peter H. Irons (Editor)

This boxed book-and-cassette set focuses on Supreme Court cases involving students' and teachers' constitutional rights. Issues involve prayer, drug testing, corporal punishment, and more. Includes live recordings and transcripts.


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  • Title May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution [With Four 90-Minute Audiocassettes]
  • Author Peter H. Irons (Editor)
  • Binding Boxed Set
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781565846135 / 1565846133
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.71 x 6.58 x 2.14 in (24.66 x 16.71 x 5.44 cm)
  • Ages 13 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 8 - 12
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Constitutional law - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028247
  • Dewey Decimal Code 344.730

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2000, Page 37
  • Choice, 06/01/2001, Page 1869
  • Library Journal, 08/09/2000, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/14/2000, Page 339
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 141

About the author

Peter H. Irons is emeritus professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation, including Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People's History of the Supreme Court. He is a co-editor of May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 (with Stephanie Guitton), May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases, and May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers, all published by The New Press. He has also contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He was chosen in 1988 as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University. He has been invited to lecture on constitutional law and civil liberties at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford and at more than twenty other schools. In addition to his academic work, Irons has been active in public affairs. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the 1980s in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal convictions of Japanese Americans who had challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Stephanie Guitton is a graduate of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a law degree from the University of Poitiers in France.

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