EPISODE · Sep 10, 2018 · 31 MIN
Leading the Way: How States Have Impacted American Constitutional Jurisprudence
from UVA Law · host University of Virginia School of Law
Body/Description for YouTube and SoundCloud (remove parens info for Drupal): Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit speaks at UVA Law about the importance of state constitutions in constitutional jurisprudence. He argues that lawyers miss many opportunities to use state constitutions to their advantage, instead limiting themselves to arguments based on the U.S. Constitution. Dean Risa Goluboff introduces Sutton at the event, a discussion of Sutton’s book, “51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law,” hosted by the Virginia Law Review and the Journal of Law & Politics. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 4, 2018)
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Body/Description for YouTube and SoundCloud (remove parens info for Drupal): Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit speaks at UVA Law about the importance of state constitutions in constitutional jurisprudence. He argues that lawyers miss many opportunities to use state constitutions to their advantage, instead limiting themselves to arguments based on the U.S. Constitution. Dean Risa Goluboff introduces Sutton at the event, a discussion of Sutton’s book, “51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law,” hosted by the Virginia Law Review and the Journal of Law & Politics. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 4, 2018)
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