Book Title: Constitutional Freedoms in the United States
Book Description: Author Tom Rozinski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Touro University in New York. He holds a A.B. from Yale, a M.A. from Harvard in Government, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has also taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to entering academia, he was a partner at Anderson Kill & Olick in New York City and general counsel to two New York City agencies. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1988.Constitutional Freedoms is an undergraduate text for courses in civil rights and liberties. It covers most of the subject areas of other undergraduate texts, although it rearranges some in ways that are more conducive to student learning. The major difference is that freedoms of speech and press are treated together as aspects of communication, rather than separately because so distinguished in the US Constitution. The book includes sections on Supreme Court procedure, methods of interpretation, and tests for unconstitutionality, as well as information about experiential learning opportunities for students.
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Author Tom Rozinski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Touro University in New York. He holds a A.B. from Yale, a M.A. from Harvard in Government, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has also taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to entering academia, he was a partner at Anderson Kill & Olick in New York City and general counsel to two New York City agencies. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1988.
Constitutional Freedoms is an undergraduate text for courses in civil rights and liberties. It covers most of the subject areas of other undergraduate texts, although it rearranges some in ways that are more conducive to student learning. The major difference is that freedoms of speech and press are treated together as aspects of communication, rather than separately because so distinguished in the US Constitution. The book includes sections on Supreme Court procedure, methods of interpretation, and tests for unconstitutionality, as well as information about experiential learning opportunities for students.
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This book is a cloned version of Constitutional Freedoms in the United States by Tom Rozinski, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) license. It may differ from the original.
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Constitutional Freedoms in the United States Copyright © 2024 by Thomas Rozinski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Constitutional law and human rights
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Constitutional Freedoms in the United States Copyright © 2024 by Thomas Rozinski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
All of the cases and historical documents included in this book are in the public domain as official United States government documents. The two law review articles and the cover photo by Billy Wilson are included under the Creative Commons attribution license.