ACS and The Cato Institute co-sponsored a debate on the new book, "The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom." The book analyzes what co-authors Robert Levy of the Cato Institute and William Mellor of the Institute for Justice view as the worst U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the modern era. The authors include cases on a range of topics including interstate commerce, affirmative action, economic rights and campaign finance. Leading practitioners and academics from different perspectives discussed the book and debated whether the cases selected by the author are in fact the twelve worst cases of recent times. Additional discussion is available on ACSBlog.

Panelists included:

• Moderator, Amanda Frost, Associate Professor of Law, American Unversity Washington College of Law (Windows Media)
• William Mellor, Co-Author of "The Dirty Dozen" and President and General Counsel, Institute of Justice (Windows Media)
• Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, the Cato Institute (Windows Media)
• Doug Kendall, Founder and President, Constitutional Accountabiliy Center (Windows Media)
• David J. Barron, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (Windows Media)

Introduction to the event: (Windows Media)

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