Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment - Hardcover

Neuborne, Burt

 
9781620970416: Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment

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One of America's foremost civil liberties lawyers challenges our understanding of how US democracy works with a radical new reading of a founding document.

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Burt Neuborne is a Professor of Civil Liberties and founding Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. For 45 years, he has been one of the nation's foremost civil liberties lawyers, serving as National Legal Director of the ACLU from 1981-86, Special Counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1990-1996, and as a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission from 1988-1992. He has argued numerous Supreme Court cases, and has litigated literally hundreds of important constitutional cases in the state and federal courts. From 1995 to 2007, he directed the legal program of the Brennan Center, focusing on efforts to reinforce American democracy and secure campaign finance reform. He has written three scholarly books, and has contributed to The Nation magazine. He lives in New York.

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