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Constitutional Law
Dec. 22, 1999
Abrupt Turnaround
^^Constitutional Law^^ Abrupt Turnaround The 1930s Radically Changed Constitutional Law In the 1930s, the shifts in constitutional law were dramatic and provided the framework for constitutional law for the rest of the century.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
What decade of the 20th century mattered the most in constitutional law? Was is it the 1950s, with the U.S. Supreme Court bringing about a social revolution by ordering desegregation? Was it the liberal Earl Warren court in the 1960s, which ordered reapportionment, applied the Bill of Rights to the states,...