Painting Constitutional Law : Xavier Cortada's Images of Constitutional Rights.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 May It Please the CourtOf Florida, from Florida, for Florida -- 1 Gideon v. Wainwright -- 2 Miami Herald v. Tornillo -- 3 Palmore v. Sidoti -- 4 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah -- 5 Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida -- 6 Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection -- 7 Bush v. Gore -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter 2 Legal Iconography and Painting Constitutional Law -- 1 Legal Iconography -- 1.1 Abstract Ideas -- 1.2 Instructive Examples -- 1.3 Critique -- 1.4 An Expanding Field -- 2 Xavier Cortada's May It Please the Court -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter 3 Xavier Cortada: Socially Engaged Activist Artist -- 1 Mural Painting as Consciousness- Raising -- 2 Law, Advocacy, and Painting -- 2.1 Gideon v. Wainwright -- 2.2 Palmore v. Sidoti -- 2.3 Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo -- 2.4 Williams v. Florida -- 2.5 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah -- 2.6 Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida -- 2.7 Proffitt v. Florida -- 2.8 Bush v. Gore -- 2.9 Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection -- 2.10 Florida v. Jardines -- 3 Art, Science, and Building Community -- 4 Conclusion -- Recommended Reading -- Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) -- Chapter 4 Gideon v. Wainwright: The Surprising Power of a Prisoner Petition -- 1 The Road to Gideon v. Wainwright -- 2 Gideon v. Wainwright -- 3 The Retreat from Gideon -- 4 May It Please the Court -- Recommended Reading -- Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970) -- Chapter 5 Williams v. Florida: What's in a Number? Jury Function and Jury Numbers -- 1 Numbers and Jury Function -- 2 Cortada's Jury.

3 Juror Consensus and Decisions -- 4 The Future of Williams -- Recommended Readings -- Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974) -- Chapter 6 Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo: Freedom of Speech for Whom? -- 1 The Case Begins -- 2 The Right of Reply -- 3 The Court Decides -- 4 Liberty, Equality, and First Amendment Law -- 5 Postscript -- Recommended Reading -- Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242 (1976) -- Chapter 7 Proffitt v. Florida: Distorting Death -- 1 What Guided Discretion Does to Death Penalty Decision-Making -- 2 Cortada's Inspiration in the Work of Francis Bacon -- Recommended Reading -- Palmore v. Sidoti, 466 U.S. 429 (1984) -- Chapter 8 Palmore v. Sidoti: The Troubling Effects of 'Private Biases' -- 1 The Florida Court: The Inevitability of 'Social Stigmatization' Due to an Interracial Household -- 2 The U.S. Supreme Court: The Law Cannot Give Effect to 'Private Biases,' Even if It Can't Reach Them -- 3 The Less Visible Aftermath of a Canonical Case -- 4 Gazing on Multiracial Families as a 'Reflection' of Modern Society? -- Recommended Reading -- Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993) -- Chapter 9 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah : The Meaning of Free Exercise: Equality and Beyond -- 1 The Santería Faith -- 2 The Conflict over Animal Sacrifice in Hialeah -- 3 Free Exercise before Lukumi -- 4 Lukumi and the Meaning of Neutrality and General Applicability -- 5 Illustrations of Inequality -- 6 Lukumi and the Life of the Free Exercise Clause -- 7 Conclusion -- Recommended Reading -- Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 517 U.S. 44 (1996) -- Chapter 10 Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida: Sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment Imag(in)ed -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sovereignty and the War for Independence.

3 Sovereignty, Federalism, and the New Constitution -- 4 Democrats and National Expansion -- 5 Native Tribes and Gaming -- 6 Seminole Tribe v. Florida -- 7 Sovereignty, Immunity, and the Origins of the Eleventh Amendment -- 8 Tribal Sovereignty and Immunity -- 9 Eleventh Amendment Symbolism -- 10 Conclusion -- Recommended Reading -- Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) -- Chapter 11 Bush v. Gore: Haste Makes Mistakes -- 1 What Happened? -- 2 The Decision in Bush v. Gore -- 3 What Went Wrong? -- 3.1 The False Perception of Crisis -- 3.2 The Court Should Not Have Decided Bush v. Gore -- 3.3 The Court Was Wrong to Stop the Counting in Florida -- 4 Conclusion -- Recommended Readings -- Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 560 U.S. 702 (2010) -- Chapter 12 Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection: On Art, Law, and the Power of the Sea -- 1 Prologue -- 2 A Deeper Assessment: Stop the Beach Renourishment -- 3 Cortada's Painting -- 4 Law, Art, and the Art of Law -- Recommended Reading -- Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013) -- Chapter 13 Florida v. Jardines: The Distortions of Implied Artistic License -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coloring the Facts -- 3 Background: Constitutional Distortion -- 4 Style: Implicit Realism -- 5 Meaning: The Harm of Intrusion -- 6 Conclusion: Memorable Images -- Recommended Reading -- Index.

In Painting Constitutional Law, scholars of constitutional law analyse Xavier Cortada's series May It Please the Court. Exploring new connections between contemporary art and law, they discuss how Cortada captures these foundational decisions, their people, and their events on canvas.

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