The power of national and transnational constitutional courts to issue binding rulings in interpreting the constitution or an international treaty has been endl

This major history of judicial review, revised to include the Rehnquist court, shows how modern courts have used their power to create new "rights with fateful

The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitu

When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righ

Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assu