Making Our Democracy Work, A Judge’s View, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was released yesterday. NPR reviewed the book and supplied an excerpt, click here to read it. The book is a “combination of history and legal philosophy. It argues that there are no easy, color-by-the-numbers answers to many legal questions and that to suggest there are is an illusion.” The book also delves into the difference of legal opinions that Breyer has had with Justice Antonin Scalia.
Interested in learning more about the Supreme Court and their significant cases? Every year PLI holds its Supreme Court Review and publishes the accompanying course handbook by the same name. The 12th Annual Supreme Court review will be published on October 30, 2010. Click here to learn more.