American Constitutional Law

By any standards, Professor Henry Paul Monaghan is a giant figure in American constitutional law. Monaghan, the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia, is a prolific scholar and renowned classroom teacher whose work is characterized by insight and by independence of thought. Other scholars, practicing lawyers wrestling with difficult issues in constitutional law and federal courts law, and Supreme Court justices alike are students of his many articles and essays. This selection of what Professor Monaghan sees as the essential core of his scholarship enables the reader to grasp the overall shape of Monaghan's profound understanding of the law of the United States Constitution.