Louis Michael Seidman

Known for his critical approach to constitutional law, Seidman co-authored Remnants of Belief (1996), which shows how most scholarship and court rulings of constitutional law try-and fail-to resolve contested issues in ways that reject political commitments. Our Unsettled Constitution (2001) argues that the principal virtue of constitutionalism is its capacity to unsettle, rather than resolve, political disputes, thus affording losers a stake in remaining within the system. Brown and Miranda (1992), shows how Supreme Court decisions that are conventionally portrayed as liberal triumphs actually undermine the radical, destabilizing potential of the regimes they supplanted.