This review of the Supreme Court's October 2021 Term looks back at the major cases addressed by the Court and provides a valuable focus on the implications of these decisions. Written by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, the book takes a neutral tone, neither praising nor criticizing the decisions, and organizes the case essays by topic.
Table of Contents:
Preface
- Introduction to October Term 2021
- Abortion
- Administrative Law
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Election Law
- Federal Court Jurisdiction
- First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
- First Amendment: Religion
- Immigration Law
- Indian Law
- Second Amendment
- State Secrets
- Conclusion: Looking Ahead
Index
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He is the author of 15 other books, including leading casebooks and treatises on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal courts, and most recently of Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights and The Supreme Court in Transition: October Term 2020. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In January 2021, he was chosen to be President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools.
