Browsing Law School by Author "Brandon, Mark E."

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    • Family at the Birth of American Constitutional Order 
      Brandon, Mark E. (Texas Law Review, 1999)
      In recent years, a number of observers of American politics, law, and society have decried what seem to be fundamental shifts in the structure and function of the family. According to some, these shifts, perhaps reinforced ...
    • Home on the Range: Family and Constitutionalism in American Continental Settlement 
      Brandon, Mark E. (Emory Law Journalwww.law.emory.edu/elj, 2003)
      For more than a century the Supreme Court of the United States has championed family as an institution of constitutional significance. The Court recently affirmed this position in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000). ...
    • States, Courts, and Founders: Remarks on Killenbeck 
      Brandon, Mark E. (Arkansas Law Review, 2004)
      Among the matters that have occupied scholars of the Constitution of the United States, four related themes have frequently recurred. One concerns the character of the founding. The second concerns the ongoing implications ...
    • Symposium on Neglected Justices 
      Brandon, Mark E.; Ely, James W., 1938- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)
      Given the legal academy's penchant for ranking, it is hardly a surprise that legal scholars have turned their attention to crafting lists of the greatest Justices of the Supreme Court. As with ratings of decisions, however, ...
    • War and American Constitutional Order 
      Brandon, Mark E. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)
      In their introduction to a fine new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop claim that "[i]f the twentieth century has been an American century, it is because the ...