The Law Library acquires new books every day. Besides textbooks and commentaries on major areas of law, the library also has a lot to offer in more specific fields of law. In a series of blog posts, we showcase books on a variety of different topics. With the U.S. presidential election underway, it is time to spotlight our latest additions on American constitutional law.
- Against constitutional originalism: a historical critique / Jonathan Gienapp (2024)
- Big money unleashed: the campaign to deregulate election spending / Ann Southworth (2023)
- Constitutional law in a nutshell / Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes (3rd ed. 2024)
- How to interpret the constitution / Cass R. Sunstein (2023)
- In the shadow of liberty: the invisible history of immigrant detention in the United States / Ana Raquel Minian (2024)
- No democracy lasts forever: how the Constitution threatens the United States / Erwin Chemerinsky (2024)
- Rebuilding expertise: creating effective and trustworthy regulation in an age of doubt / William D. Araiza (2022)
- The Supreme Court / Helena Silverstein (2024)
- The Supreme Court and the philosopher: how John Stuart Mill shaped US free speech protections / Eric T. Kasper and Troy A. Kozma (2024)
Other sources on the U.S. elections and presidents
Looking to dive deeper into the American elections and presidents? Take a look at the following books from our collection:
- Election interference: international law and the future of democracy / Jens David Ohlin (2020)*
- High crimes and misdemeanors: a history of impeachment for the age of Trump / Frank O. Bowman III (2024)*
- Historic firsts in U.S. elections trailblazing candidates in gubernatorial, congressional, and mayoral campaigns / edited by Evelyn M. Simien (2022)*
- Impeachment: what everyone needs to know / Michael J. Gerhardt (2018)*
- President Trump en de rule of law : werkt het Amerikaanse rechtssysteem nog steeds? / Eric Daalder (2021)
- Routledge handbook of election law / D. Schultz, J. Toplak (2022)*
- The Routledge historical atlas of presidential elections / Y. Mieczkowski (2nd ed. 2020)*
- Sedition hunters: how January 6th broke the justice system / Ryan J. Reilly (2023)
- A Supreme Court unlike any other: the deepening divide between the justices and the people / Kevin J. McMahon (2024)*
- Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections / J. Downs, S. Abrams, C. Anderson, K.M. Kruse, H. Cox Richardson, H.A. Thompson (2020)*
- When the nerds go marching in: how digital technology moved from the margins to the mainstream of political campaigns / Rachel Gibson (2020)*
* (Also) available as an e-book.
In addition, the database HeinOnline has two sub-collections related to U.S. presidents:
U.S. Presidential Library: messages and papers of the presidents, public papers of the presidents, documents relating to impeachment, and a host of other works relating to the U.S. presidency
U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library: contemporaneous and asynchronous documents, presenting the political climate during impeachment and the view history has taken of each proceeding
JSTOR, a digital library that provides access to many academic journals, has published an online syllabus: Voting in American Politics. The syllabus links to articles on JSTOR Daily.
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