The Brian Lehrer Show

The Warren Court's Legacy

01.17.2020 - By WNYCPlay

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David Strauss, law professor and the faculty director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago and the author of The Living Constitution and the co-author of Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (Oxford University Press, 2020) (with Geoffrey Stone), and Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor and noted first amendment scholar, discuss their new book on the liberal legacy of the Supreme Court when led by the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, a former Republican governor of California.  Major cases decided by the Court include Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold, Sullivan, plus they instituted the Miranda warnings.

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