The Political Theory of the Warren Court

FAIN: FS-10050-75

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
C. Herman Pritchett (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To conduct a seminar on the Warren Court (1953-69) and to examine the Court's thinking in three major fields: 1) the Court's conception of its judicial role and its relationship to the other branches of the government; 2) the extension of federal constitutional and judicial controls over the states; and 3) the new egalitarianism resulting from the Court's expansion and reinterpretation of the equal protection clause.