The Bill of Rights in Modern America
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2008. Revised and Expanded Edition, First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 322 pages. Includes Introduction: The Bill of Rights; Part 1--The Myth and Reality of Rights; Part 2--Modern Rights in Controversy; Part 3--Rights Remembered, Revised, and Extended, The Right to Privacy; Second Wind for the State Bill of Rights. Also includes Notes, Bibliographic Essays, List of Contributors, Table of Cases, and Index. This book examines the significance of the Bill of Rights in modern society. Informed by a historical perspective, it focuses on contemporary issues and explores the current understanding of the Bill of Rights. Written for a general audience, the new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to address the impact of the Rehnquist years. James Ely is a renowned legal historian and property rights expert whose career accomplishments were recognized with both the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize and the Owner Counsel of American Crystal Eagle Award in 2006. He is the author of several books that have received widespread critical acclaim from legal scholars and historians. He also served as an editor of both the second edition of the Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court, and the second edition of the Oxford Guide to Supreme Court Decisions. Professor Ely received the Tennessee History Book Award in 2002 for A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Between 1987 and 1999, he served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Legal History. More