Law and the Protection of Democracy: Essays in Honor of Alfred C. Aman Jr.
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Highly topical collection of innovative essays on the protection of democracy by eminent contributors from the judiciary, the practicing legal profession, the academy, and the realm of journalism.
With international safeguards for democracy showing signs of fragility as they come under various forms of attack, the vitality of the legal imagination will be essential to the future of the democratic rule of law. This collection of essays undertakes an innovative and timely assessment of the legal system's capacity for self-renewal. In its focus on law as a creative project in the service of democracy, the volume honors Alfred C. Aman Jr., a distinguished law professor, administrator, jazz musician, and scholar. Aman's extensive body of work includes farsighted, and ultimately optimistic, writings drawing attention to the potential of law reform as a means of addressing democracy deficits in the United States.
This book provides a timely, even urgent, analysis of current challenges to democracy, tackling questions of Constitutional interpretation, separation of Church and State, press freedom, personhood, admissibility of evidence, environmental protection, and legal education, among other issues. Beyond current problems, authors consider resources for renewal in unexpected places, for example, looking to mentorship in legal education as support for democratic imagination and to processes of interpretation, improvisation, and generative dissonance as exemplified in music in ways that are relevant to law. The essays relate to the United States and other jurisdictions that, like the US, have fought hard for their freedoms and democracy through law.
Volume edited by and includes chapter, "Protecting'persons' in a technological era" by Maurer Professor Yvonne Cripps
Includes chapter, "Executive orders, credible commitments, and US climate policy" by Maurer Professor Daniel Cole
Includes chapter, "Harmonizing international migration and legal education" by Maurer Professor Jayanth Krishnan
Includes chapter, "In the groove: the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies" by Maurer Law School Dean Christiana Ochoa and former student Arantxa Recarte
Includes chapter, "Supporting the presumption of innocence and addressing systemic racism: reforming the law of evidence to prohibit impeaching criminal defendants with their prior crimes" by Maurer Professor Aviva Orenstein
Includes chapter, "Polyphony and dissonance: state courts, individual liberty, and reproductive rights" by Maurer Professor Emerita Lauren Robel
Includes chapter, "Gender equality and the music of constitutional design" by Maurer Professor Susan Williams
Includes chapter, "Laïcité : a jarring sound in global constitutionalism?" by Maurer visiting Professor Élisabeth Zoller
ISBN
9781648250972 (hb.), 9781805435389 (ebook)
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
City
Rochester, NY
Keywords
Public policy, constitutional law, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, press law, democracy, legal education
Disciplines
Construction Law | First Amendment | Law | Legal Education | Legal Profession | Public Law and Legal Theory
Recommended Citation
Cripps, Yvonne; Rookard, Landyn Wm.; Greenhouse, Carol J.; Robel, Lauren K.; Zoller, Elisabeth; Orenstein, Aviva; Krishnan, Jayanth K.; Ochoa, Christiana; Hamilton, David F.; Green, Lloyd; Williams, Susan; Lin, Tzu-Yi; Cole, Daniel; Alder, Nathan D.; and Recarte, Arantxa, "Law and the Protection of Democracy: Essays in Honor of Alfred C. Aman Jr." (2025). Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty. 342.
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/342
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Full bibliographic details available in IUCAT
Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library KF 450.P8 L39 2025