Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law

"Kloppenberg has provided the first sustained attack on the long-standing judicial practice of avoidance in at least a generation. For that reason alone, her argument deserves careful attention....Kloppenberg's book has some real virtues. She is a careful, even painstaking scholar, and she does a fine job of exploring the current Court's many attempts to avoid the most controversial and difficult issues....[Yet] she does not offer...a discussion of the reasons for avoidance...."Lisa Kloppenberg is the author of 'Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law', published 2001 under ISBN 9780814747407 and ISBN 081474740X.