The Constitution Goes to College: Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University

by Rodney Smolla and Rodney A. Smolla

Book Overview

American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard's President Lawrence Summers, and the lacrosse team rape case at Duke, among others. No...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814741037
• ISBN13: 9780814741030
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"