About the Author

Frank J. Colucci is assistant professor of political science at Purdue University - Calumet.

Reviews

Justice Kennedy now stands at the center of the Court and is pivotal to many of its most important decisions. Colucci's study provides a penetrating and much needed look at this critical figure in modern American politics. Keith E. Whittington, author of Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review ""A carefully crafted, comprehensive, and provocative account of Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence. Colucci makes a convincing case for the proposition that, far from being a seat-of-the-pants situationalist, Kennedy is steering towards a consistent and principled moralism, committed to the realization of a constitutional liberty according profound respect for human dignity."" Ken I. Kersch, author of Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law