Jun. 24, 2004

9th Circuit Rightly Let Doctors Carry Out Their Patients' Wishes

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Throughout American history, conservatives have used federalism as a way of opposing desirable social change. For example, "states' rights" were the basis for the opposition to abolishing slavery, to Progressive Era legislation protecting employees and consumers, to the New Deal, and to the civil rights reforms of the 1950s and 1960s.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).