The Constitution in 2020

The Constitution in 2020 is a long overdue effort by progressive legal scholars to articulate their vision of the Constitution. Modeled after the Constitution in 2000, a document produced in the Reagan Justice Department that shaped the direction of conservative legal thought, the book is timely and engaging. It provides a wonderful introduction to progressive legal thought for law students and lay people alike. The chapters are very accessible, and clearer than your typical law review article -- this is definitely a book written for the general public, not for constitutional scholars. And the essays cover the whole gamut of legal issues, from first amendment rights to social and economic rights to citizenship issues. Moreover, the book pulls together essays from the leading progressive thinkers of our time. If any ideas are likely to shape the progressive legal agenda for years to come, it is those of the contributors to this volume. This collection of essays will be extremely valuable for people interested in learning more about progressive legal thought.

Nowhere will you find so much progressive-minded legal brainpower accumulated in such a short, readable volume. Many of the top law professors in the country combine here to produce a vision--albeit one in pieces--of the Constitution not subsumed to the Reagan Justice Department's political mission, as ours has been in the past 30 years.