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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Description: What areas of our lives are governed by constitutional law? When asked about what constitutional law is, Americans tend to think of notable Supreme Court cases such as the abortion law case Roe v. Wade or the Civil Rights landmark of Brown v. Board of Education. But vast swaths of our lives are governed by, of all things, the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”This is just one of the fascinating facts that we learn from...