A brief historical overview of the development of american constitutional theory -- Theories of constitutional change -- Judicial activism and restraint : the contemporary debate -- Theories of judicial review and the debate over judicial supremacy -- Textualism and constitutional interpretation -- Originalism and constitutional interpretation -- Structural reasoning -- Moral reasoning -- Precedent in constitutional adjudication -- Liberal constitutional theory -- Conservative constitutional theory -- Feminist legal theory -- Critical race theory -- Interpretation theory and postmodernism -- Theory and its discontents.
