MoJers Contribute to Con Law Reference

Monday's mail brought The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, to which two of our own members (Rick Garnett and Tom Berg) contributed, as did a number of other prominent Catholic legal scholars. The Guide combines line-by-line annotations of the text of the U.S. Constitution with short explanatory essays of each provision and bibliographies of suggested readings for further research. It looks to be a great research tool.

Obviously, as a Heritage Foundation project, the analysis has a conservative slant, but the contributors include many serious and objective scholars, including a number of friends such as Gerard Bradley, Eric Chiappinelli, Don Dripps, John Eastman, Richard Epstein, Andy Leipold, Ron Rotunda, Brad Smith, and Bill Stuntz. (Wow, what a great Supreme Court lineup they'd make!) Fans of the blawgosphere will recognize names such as David Bernstein and Eugene Volokh (of the Volokh Conspiracy). Finally, there are a few names that might surprise you, such as Jack Goldsmith (former NAACP lawyer who worked on Brown v. Board of Education). In sum, highly recommended.