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The 2023-2024 edition of CRBW now includes new videos from luminous constitutional law scholars from around the country. Each of the scholars below has contributed a CRBW-style video to the casebook. We are deeply grateful to these professors for helping us expand CRBW into new areas.
Professor Jennifer Chacón is the Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Her cutting-edge scholarship explores the nexus of immigration law, constitutional law, and criminal law and procedure.
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She has contributed a CRBW video on Arizona v. United States, a case about federal preemption and immigration law, in which the Supreme Court explains how states cannot legislate in ways that interfere with federal immigration policies.
Professor Guy-Uriel Charles is the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he also directs the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. Professor Charles is a nationally renowned expert on election law, race, and democratic theory.
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He has contributed a CRBW video on Lassiter v. Northampton, a voting rights case, in which the Supreme Court upheld North Carolina’s literacy test requirement even though it was widely used to disenfranchise Black voters.
Professor Sharon Dolovich is Professor of Law at UCLA Law School and a leading scholar of prisons, punishment, and the Eighth Amendment. She is Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program, and the founder of the UCLA-Law Behind Bars Data Project.
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She has contributed a CRBW video on Farmer v. Brennan, a prisoners’ rights case, in which the Supreme Court set the standard for proving an Eighth Amendment violation so high as to make it extremely difficult for people in prison to challenge harmful conditions of confinement.
Professor Leah Litman is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is an influential constitutional law scholar with expertise in, among other things, federal courts, habeas corpus, and reproductive rights. She is also co-founder of the prize-winning podcast about the Supreme Court, Strict Scrutiny.
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She has contributed a CRBW video on United States v. Morrison, a case about judicial supremacy, Congressional authority, and gender-based discrimination, in which the Supreme Court held that Congress lacked authority to pass legislation protecting women from gender-based violence committed by private individuals.
Professor Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU Law School, and the Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network. She is a nationally renowned expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. She is also co-founder of the prize-winning podcast about the Supreme Court, Strict Scrutiny.
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She has contributed a CRBW video on Griswold v. Connecticut, a reproductive rights case, in which the Supreme Court developed the foundations of its privacy jurisprudence when it struck down Connecticut’s criminal ban on the use of contraception.
Professor Douglas NeJaime is Anne Urowsky Professor of Law at Yale Law School and one of the nation’s leading scholars of family law, parenthood, same-sex rights, and constitutional law. He has been a leader on national efforts to reform parentage laws to accommodate families that feature nonbiological parent-child relationships, including families formed by same-sex couples and through assisted reproduction.
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He has contributed a CRBW video on Obergefell v. Hodges, a case about same-sex marriage, in which the Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and that states must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
Guest contributor videos follow the same design model as all CRBW videos: in approximately 15 minutes, they teach students how to read a seminal Supreme Court case as a way of understanding a broad area of constitutional law. In this new 2023-2024 edition of the casebook, all students and educators registered for CRBW will have automatic, free access to these bonus materials.