Procedural Due Process: A Reference Guide To The United States Constitution (Reference Guides To The United States Constitution)

Procedural Due Process: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution (Reference Guides to the United States Constitution)

This book gathers, synthesizes and analyzes case law in a variety of substantive contexts, including public employment, prison administration, and government benefits. It places current case law into historical context, serving as a reference guide for students, practitioners, judges and scholars interested in procedural due process.The author addresses the central requirements of notice and the opportunity to be heard as well as the day in court ideal. It also examines the protection due process affords against litigation in a distant forum with which the defendant has no connection.Review?Wasserman's treatise on due process is remarkable for its enjoyable readability and breadth of treatment....Historians and legal scholars in particular will find this volume to be succinct, valuable reading on the topic, and resource for identifying references of additional depth and scholarship....Procedural Due Process fulfills its promise of being "comprehensible and useful to a wide audience." It would be relevant in academic and public libraries as well as to judges and scholars.?-Legal Information Alert"Wasserman's treatise on due process is remarkable for its enjoyable readability and breadth of treatment....Historians and legal scholars in particular will find this volume to be succinct, valuable reading on the topic, and resource for identifying references of additional depth and scholarship....Procedural Due Process fulfills its promise of being "comprehensible and useful to a wide audience." It would be relevant in academic and public libraries as well as to judges and scholars."-Legal Information AlertAbout the AuthorRHONDA WASSERMAN is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she has taught since 1986.