Impeachment: A Handbook - Softcover

Black, Charles L. Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300238266 ISBN 13: 9780300238266

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis, Charles Black’s classic Impeachment: A Handbook has long been the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated with new chapters by Philip Bobbitt, it remains essential reading for every concerned citizen.
 
Praise for Impeachment:
 
“To understand impeachment, read this book. It shows how the rule of law limits power, even of the most powerful, and reminds us that the impact of the law on our lives ultimately depends on the conscience of the individual American.”—Bill Bradley, former United States senator
 
“The most important book ever written on presidential impeachment.”—Lawfare
 
“A model of how so serious an act of state should be approached.”—Wall Street Journal
 
“A citizen’s guide to impeachment. . . . Elegantly written, lucid, intelligent, and comprehensive.”—New York Times Book Review
 
“The finest text on the subject I have ever read.”—Ben Wittes
 
Charles L. Black, Jr. (1915–2001), was Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Philip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles L. Black, Jr. (1915–2001), was Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Philip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School.

Review:

“Yale University Press [has] produced a new edition of Charles Black’s Impeachment: A Handbook, with substantial new scholarship added by Philip Bobbitt. It is Bobbitt's mission to reclaim for impeachment the status of a legal process, in which constitutional interpretation is guided by careful and rigorously argued attention to text, history, structure, doctrine, prudence and what he calls ‘ethos’—a concern with the ‘primacy of the rule of law.’ His presentation is powerful and convincing.”—Bob Bauer, Lawfare blog
“Black’s work — now Black and Bobbitt’s — continues to set the standard for responsible study of a subject that is easy and advantageous to misunderstand. This is a book that performs its message, exercising as well as urging common sense and educated restraint.”—Jane Chong, Los Angeles Review of Books
“To understand impeachment, read Black & Bobbitt. They show how the rule of law limits power, even of the most powerful, and remind us that the impact of the law on our lives ultimately depends on the conscience of individual members of Congress serving as jurors or judges.”—Bill Bradley, former United States Senator
"Charles Black’s book on impeachment was an instant classic when it was first published in 1974, and it is even more timely today now that Philip Bobbitt has trenchantly brought it up to date.”—Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War  
“In 1974, a law professor named Charles L. Black published an extraordinary volume entitled, Impeachment: A Handbook. It is the finest text on the subject I have ever read.”—Ben Wittes

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300238266
• ISBN 13: 9780300238266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184