Skip to main content
Home

Case Archive

A Short Course

Select a Chapter to browse the cases.

Case Archive
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
VII
19
20

Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center

Lee Epstein
Thomas G. Walker

A Short Course

  • Browse Cases
  • I. THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
  • 1. The Living Constitution
  • 2. Understanding the Supreme Court
  • II. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  • 3. The Judiciary
  • 4. The Legislature
  • 5. The Executive
  • III. NATION-STATE RELATIONS
  • 6. Federalism
  • 7. The Commerce Power
  • 8. The Power to Tax and Spend
  • IV. ECONOMIC LIBERTIES
  • 9. The Contract Clause
  • 10. Economic Substantive Due Process
  • 11. The Takings Clause
  • V. CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • 12. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
  • 13. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
  • 14. Freedom of the Press
  • 15. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 16. The Right to Privacy
  • VI. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
  • 17. Investigations and Evidence
  • 18. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
  • VII. CIVIL RIGHTS
  • 19. Discrimination
  • 20. Voting and Representation

Cases

The Right to Counsel

  • Alabama v. Shelton 
  • Argersinger v. Hamlin 
  • Betts v. Brady 
  • Douglas v. California 
  • Powell v. Alabama 
  • Ross v. Moffitt 
  • Scott v. Illinois 

 

Fair Trials

  • Betterman v. Montana (2016) 
  • Davis v. Washington 
  • Foster v. Chatman (2016) 
  • Maryland v. Craig 
  • Melendez-Dias v. Massachusetts 
  • Michigan v. Bryant 
  • Ramos v. Louisiana
  • Sheppard v. Maxwell 
  • Vermont v. Brillon 
  • Williams v. Pennsylvania (2016) 

 

Sentencing and the Eigth Amendment

  • Baze v. Rees 
  • Ewing v. California 
  • Furman v. Georgia 
  • Graham v. Florida 
  • Kennedy v. Louisiana 
  • McCleskey v. Kemp 
  • Roper v. Simmons 
  • Solem v. Helm 

 

Post Trial Stages

  • Ashe v. Swenson 

 

  • Copyright Notice
  • Terms of Service
© Copyright 2020 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.