Review of a Monograf by V.N. Safonov «Constitutional Law-Making in the US Suprime Court Activity. Historical-Legal Reaserch». Moscow: Prospect Publ., 2018

Abstract

The monograph observes the problems of the US Supreme Court law-making activity in sphere of interpreting the federal Constitution. Tendencies of the American constitutional, common and precedent law development are shown in historical and theoretical context. The author studies legal determinations of the US Supreme Court Judges and judicial doctrines basing on them. He also reveals the correlation between the judicial conservatism and activism within the general line of the US legal policy and ideology.

Keywords

• US Supreme Court
• United States Constitution
• American constitutionalism
• judicial law-making
• judicial precedent
• judicial precedent
• judicial activism