THE COLLAPSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES
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series editor
Geoffrey R. Stone
Lee C. Bollinger
President
Columbia University
Alan M. Dershowitz
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Laura K. Donohue
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Aziz Z. Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law
Stanford Law School
Alexander Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy
JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Michael J. Klarman
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and History
Harvard Law School
Larry D. Kramer
Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean
Stanford Law School
Lawrence Lessig
Edmund J. Safra Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Goodwin Liu
Professor of Law
University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor, Philosophy, Law, Divinity, South Asian Studies
The University of Chicago
Eric A. Posner
Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
Richard A. Posner
Judge
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jack N. Rakove
William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies
Stanford University
Christopher H. Schroeder
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Stephen J. Schulhofer
Robert B. McKay Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Louis Michael Seidman
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Geoffrey R. Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago Law School
David A. Strauss
Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
Kathleen M. Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Cass R. Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor
Harvard Law School
Laurence H. Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Mark V. Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Judge
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law
New York University School of Law
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I am grateful to Andrew Coan, Seth Davis, Neal Devins, Gerald Magliocca, Tara Leigh Grove, Alon Harel, Jon Michaels, Jim Pfander, Aziz Rana, Shalev Roisman, and Gerry Rosenberg. All read parts of the manuscript and gave me valuable feedback. Geof Stone read a proposal and the whole draft. At both stages, he gave thoughtful and useful reactions. Genevieve Lakier and I wrote a piece together that spun out some ideas related to this book; in the process, we had many thought-provoking conversations. Deans Michael Schill and Tom Miles of the University of Chicago Law School nurtured a robust intellectual home for work on this volume. The