We the Students : Supreme Court Cases for and About Students

Designed to help students achieve constitutional literacy, We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students examines dozens of compelling Supreme Court cases pertaining to young people. Through meaningful and engaging commentary, case excerpts, and individual and class exercises, Jamin B. Raskin provides students with the tools necessary to gain an understanding of and appreciation for democratic freedoms and challenges, underscoring students' responsibility in preserving constitutional principles. In the completely revised third edition, We the Students takes a comprehensive look at all of the major constitutional issues affecting students, including freedom of speech and the press, religion in schools, discipline, and discrimination.

Updates and additions to this edition include: an engaging new design, to assist students as they navigate the book's concepts and features, discussion of recent rulings on student speech, desegregation, affirmative action, and Title IX, a new "Dissenting Voices" section that combines short extracts from dissenting opinions with explanatory narrative to illustrate the conceptual differences among justices' opinions, new justice biographies and student exercises, legal definitions printed in the margins of case opinions to aid student comprehension

About the Author:
Jamin B. Raskin is professor of constitutional law and the First Amendment at American University Washington College of Law and a Maryland state senator