Primary reading:
Jerome Agel and Mort Gerberg. The U.S. Constitution for Everyone. New York: Perigee Books, 2001. 64 p. Paper.
Robert A. Dahl, How Democratic is the American Constitution? New Haven, Conn.: Yale Nota Bene S., 2003
Lawrence M. Friedman. Law in America. New York: New American Library/Random House, 2004. 207 p. Paper.
The Outline of the U.S. Legal System (U.S. Department of State, 2004)(handout)
Compendium No. 1, ENG2573: American Society and the Law: Documents. No. 1. Reprinted from: Richard B. Morris, ed. Basic Documents in American History. New York: D. Van Norstrand Co., Inc., 1956 (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika) (Selections)
Compendium No. 2, ENG2573: American Society and the Law, No. 2 (available at Kopiutsalget,Akademika): "How our Government Works." Washington D.C.: U.S. News & World Report, Jan 28, 1985 (16p.)
Compendium No. 3, ENG2573: American Society and the Law, No. 3 (Available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika): "American Justice: ABC's of How it Really Works." Washington D.C.: U.S.News & World Report, Nov 1, 1982 (24p.).
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (Selections)
Secondary reading: Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy. The Right to Privacy. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Amnesty International. United States of America: Rights for All 1998
Ole O. Moen. Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2001
Herman Schwartz. Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts. N.Y.: Nations Books, 2004
Girardeau A. Spann. Race against the Court: The Supreme Court & Minorities in Contemporary America. New York/London: New York Univ. Press, 1993
W.M Wiecek. Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988
Charles F. Wilkinson. American Indians, Time, and the Law. New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1988
Web sites:
http://counsel.cua.edu/FEDLAW/A-Z.cfm