The Schoolhouse Gate - Leave Your Constitutional Rights Outside! With Justin Driver
This engaging (and alarming) book aims to vindicate the rights of public school students – rights which have been so often undermined by the Supreme Court – essentially threatening basic constitutional order. Cultural anxieties dividing American Society – racial segregation, unauthorized immigration, antiwar protests, compulsory flag salutes, economic inequality, teacher-led prayer – have been addressed by the Supreme Court in public schools. Decisions supporting zero tolerance, severe corporal punishment, searches without probable cause, or suppressing student speech do not protect student’s constitutional rights but turn schools into Constitution-free zones without demonstrating citizenship. Justin Driver, the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, provides a fresh, lucid and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education, using them to illuminate contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation.
A Marshall Scholar at Oxford, editor of the Harvard Law Review while at Harvard Law School, with a Master’s in Education from Duke, Justin Driver clerked for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer, and Judge Merrick B. Garland. Prepare for a fascinating discussion!