Preface – New Volume, New Issue, New Editors!
Greetings,
Along with the newest volume (36) and issue (01), the Law and Politics Book Review can introduce its newest co-editors: Hayley Munir and Michael Catalano. Dr. Munir is an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Sciences Department at Illinois State University. Dr. Catalano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Scranton. We aim to carry on the tremendous legacy of service and scholarship left by our predecessors. A special thank you to the outgoing co-editors of the Law and Politics Book Review – Dr. Monica Lineberger and Dr. Jolly Emrey – for their years of service.
In this issue, we present reviews of three books tied together under the common theme of courts and the protection of individual rights. First, Kathleen Sullivan, of Ohio University, reviews IN HER OWN NAME: THE POLITICS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS BEFORE SUFFRAGE by Sara Chatfield. Sullivan’s review emphasizes the “meticulous job” Chatfield does in explaining the economic rights of women at the subnational level in the United States from the antebellum period through World War I.
Next, Susan Achury (Lycoming College) reviews HOW CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS MATTER by Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg. Achury dissects the main point of Chilton and Versteeg’s work, which argues that codifying rights into constitutions does not guarantee that those rights will gain support from political elite and policymakers.
Finally, Amanda Driscoll (Florida State University) reviews JUDICIAL VETOES: DECISION-MAKING ON MIXED SELECTION CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS, by Lydia Tiede. Driscoll contends with Tiede’s explanation defining the balance between the impact of judicial selection and ideology and partisanship on judicial behavior.
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