Legislative Process

Once again, expert authors Mikva and Lane draw on their considerable experience to explore and explain the legislative institutions and processes of the United States. Legislative Process, Second Edition, offers a current and comprehensive examination about the realities of how law is made. Here are just a few reasons why so many of your colleagues choose this distinctive casebook:extraordinary authorship, Abner J. Mikva is a former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, a five-term Congressman, and Counsel to the President during the Clinton Administration. Eric Lane has extensive experience with both state and local legislatureseffective use of primary materials, including bills and statutes, committee reports and debates, legislative rules, Constitutional provisions and legislative authorities, and casespractical and process-oriented approach shows students what happens, plus how it happens, step-by-stephistorical focus gives context to the topics and perspective to current legislative enactmentsa statutory paperback from the same authors is also available Completely revised for its Second Edition, the casebook now covers:new limits to Congress' commerce clause poweran enhanced discussion of what documents evidence the enactment of statutory lawthe continuing debate over statutory constructionthe end of the term limit movementthe New Lobbying Disclosure Act and campaign finance proposalsequal protection jurisprudence to limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act of 1965major new cases US v. Morrison (Violence Against Women Act), Hunt v. Cromartie (voting rights), US Term Limits v. Thornton and Cook v. Gralike (congressional term limits), Colorado Federal Campaign Committee cases (limits on First Amendment), and Clinton v. New York (balanced budget bill)Mikva, Abner J. is the author of 'Legislative Process' with ISBN 9780735524811 and ISBN 0735524815.