Constitutional Law,
California Supreme Court
Jan. 15, 2020
The last decade in the United States Supreme Court
Everyone seems to be making lists about what occurred in the last decade, so what about the Supreme Court over the last 10 years? What were the most important rulings and what do they tell us about the court? Obviously, there is great subjectivity in picking the 10 most significant decisions, yet I also believe that there would be a consensus among scholars for most of the cases on this list.
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).
Everyone seems to be making lists about what occurred in the last decade, so what about the Supreme Court over the last 10 years? What were the most important rulings and what do they tell us about the court? Obviously, there is great subjectivity in picking the 10 most significant decisions, yet I also believe that there would be a consensus among scholars for most of the cases on this list.
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