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Berger, Raoul – 1981
Chapter 1 of a book on school law, this article analyzes the role of the U.S. Supreme Court, and contends that there has been a judicial takeover of functions that had been delegated by the Constitution to the states and to the people. Specifically, the author argues that much of the Supreme Court's expansion of its powers rests on the selective…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Court Role, Due Process
Walden, Ruth – 1984
An analysis of the Supreme Court's First Amendment decisions under Chief Justice Warren Burger does not indicate any pattern of repudiation of doctrinal advances made by earlier courts. Like its predecessors, the Burger Court has dealt most frequently with First Amendment cases requiring definition and interpretation of government abridgement. In…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Thompson, William J. – 1982
The role of the court on the campus is examined from the constitutional cases of the 1960s, through the expansion of administrative regulations during the 1970s, to the potential of judicial restraint and less government in the 1980s. It is agreed that the courts have pushed colleges and universities to higher ethical standards. These positive…
Descriptors: College Role, Court Litigation, Court Role, Ethics