The Best New Civil Rights Law Books To Read In 2025

Drawing from political science as much as from legal studies, Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course helps readers realize that Supreme Court cases are more than just legal names and citations. Ideal for a one semester course, the Ninth Edition covers recent landmark cases and new scholarship in a more condensed format.

This student-focused treatise provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive, and readable overview of the doctrine, policy, history, and theory of civil rights and constitutional litigation under Section 1983 and its Bivens federal counterpart. The book works for dedicated civil rights courses and larger federal courts classes; it can function as a primary assignment, as an assigned or recommended case and statutory supplement to a casebook or case materials, and as a supplemental study guide for students wanting additional background, context, and synthesis of the material. The third edition:.

Covers all aspects of civil rights and constitutional litigation, including the history of civil rights legislation in the United States; the substantive elements of Section 1983 and Bivens causes of action; individual immunity defenses; governmental liability and immunity; procedural and jurisdictional hurdles; abstention; and remedies.Explores the doctrinal areas that have undergone substantial changes or challenges since the prior edition, including the retraction of Bivens; the extension, criticism, and cross-ideological calls for reform of qualified immunity; the narrowing of abstention; debates over the scope of injunctive relief; and the Supreme Court's increasing engagement earlier in constitutional cases.Explores new applications of long-standing doctrines, including controversies over when social-media companies and public officials act under color of state law in controlling who has access to sites and pages.Adds new and expanded "Puzzles" for most topics within the book. These short problems, drawn from news stories, lawsuits, and lower-court decisions, challenge students to work through and apply the doctrine. The book can serve as a primary source for a problem-centered civil rights courses.Includes appendices containing the United States Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, and selected substantive, jurisdictional, and procedural federal statutes and rules that govern in civil rights and constitutional litigation.

Discover the remarkable history of the Civil Rights Movement... Free BONUS Inside! The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-twentieth century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law. In reality, it began much earlier than the 1950s and continues until this day. What is more, it was about so much more than the extension of universal rights; the Civil Rights Movement is about the story of the long struggle to overcome the legacies of slavery and racism.

It is a story of triumph over adversity and perseverance in the face of great hardship. Discover a plethora of topics such asThe Movement BeginsThe Civil Rights ActBloody Sunday and the Fight to VoteThe Black PanthersThe Assassination of Martin Luther KingThe Fight Continues: The 1970s and BeyondAnd much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Civil Rights Movement, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!