Reading Suggestions for September 2012 General Meeting
Reading List for September General Meeting US Constitution & Oregon Constitution
Law Review articles:
(1) Kanter, Stephen. Bong Hits 4 Jesus as a Cautionary Tale of Two Cities, Lewis and Clark Law Review, Vol. 12, Number 1, Spring 2008. This issue has additional articles devoted to this case.
(2) Kanter, Stephen. Sleeping Beauty Wide Awake: State Constitutions as Important Independent Sources of Individual Rights, Lewis & Clark Law Re-view, Vol. 15, Number 3, Fall 2011. This issue has additional articles devoted to the state Constitution.
Magazine Articles:
(1) Stengel, Richard. One Document, Under Siege. Time Magazine, Page 30, July 4 2011 (with reporting by Andrea Ford).
(2) Landau, Jack L. The Myth of Judicial Activism: No One Wants to be a Judicial Activist, Right?, Oregon State Bar Bulletin, July 2010.
(3) Finnemore, Melody. The Red Hot Trail: As Electronic Tracking to Accumulate Evidence Becomes More Extensive, Many Worry About Threat to Privacy Rights. Oregon State Bar Bulletin, October 2011.
Books:
(1) Breyer, Stephen. (2005). Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
a) Free on-line text through Multnomah County Library (you need a library card)
b) Place hold on paper book through Multnomah County Library
(2) Breyer, Stephen. (2010). Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
a) Paper book available from Multnomah County Library
(3) Levinson, Sanford. (2006). Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where The Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It). Oxford University Press.
a) Free on-line text through Multnomah County Library (you need a library card)
