Title

The Roberts Court: Year 1

Abstract

This paper is an empirical examination of the recently ended 2005 Supreme Court term. The paper, in addition to reviewing the work of the Court as a whole, also examines the jurisprudence of new justices Roberts and Alito. In doing so, it proposes the intriguing possibility that these two justices may share a jurisprudential approach different from the Court's more established conservatives. If correct, this raises numerous and interesting possibilities for the future of conservativism on the Supreme Court.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law | Courts | Judges | Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Politics | Law and Society | Public Law and Legal Theory

Date of this Version

July 2006