(Oxford University Press)
Sorry fans, he’s probably too busy now for a book signing.
A book by Assistant Attorney General Christopher Schroeder was published last month by renowned academic publisher Oxford University Press. Schroeder, a former law professor at Duke University, is now the head of the Office of Legal Policy, which helps shepherd judicial nominees through the confirmation process.
Keeping Faith with the Constitution was authored by a trio of law professors: Schroeder; Goodwin Liu, of the University of California, Berkeley and a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; and Pamela Karlan, of Stanford University Law School.
In the book, the authors discuss their approach to constitutional interpretation, what they call “constitutional fidelity” — “To be faithful to the Constitution is to interpret its words and to apply its principles in ways that preserve the Constitution’s meaning and democratic legitimacy over time.”
In the first two chapters, the authors explain the approach, with most of the remaining chapters dedicated to explaining how the theory of constitutional fidelity could be applied to various constitutional issues.
The 272-page book isn’t completely new; the authors first published the work in May 2009 with the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal organization (you can download a free copy of that here).
The hardcover edition printed by Oxford University Press is substantially the same, but with a new editor’s note by University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey R. Stone and one additional chapter on freedom of speech that was not included in the first publication.
