This Article offers the first close study of statutory interpretation in several state courts of last
resort. While academics have spent the past decade speculating about the" death of …

This Supplement includes all relevant United States Supreme Court decisions handed down
since the most recent editions of Understanding Criminal Procedure (Vol. 1, 7th ed.; Vol. 2 …

State supreme courts and the United States Supreme Court are the independent and final
arbiters of their respective constitutions, and may therefore take different approaches to …

The story of the modem state constitutionalism movement begins with a 1977 Harvard Law
Review article by United States Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. In that short …

The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal
regimes of the states, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights …

S TATE courts' increased attention to state constitutions, a development labeled the" new
judicial federalism," represents one aspect of a broader interest in states and state legal …

The year is 1993 and the Hawaii Supreme Court has just declared-as a matter of state
constitutional law-that the state prohibition of same-sex marriage constitutes gender …

Constitutions govern governments: they create governments, grant them powers, and
impose limits on the exercise of granted powers. In the American legal order, constitutional …

" This new edition continues the tradition of comprehensive coverage, providing teachers
with choices that are suitable to either two-or three-unit courses with emphasis on local or …

The new 6-3 super majority on the Supreme Court will certainly reshape federal
constitutional law in its own image. The question addressed in this article is how that …