Aaron Tang
Aaron Tang is a constitutional law professor,
frequent Supreme Court commentator,
and the author of Supreme Hubris:
How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court—And How We Can Fix It.
Praise
“Tang masterfully shows how overconfidence bias among U.S. Supreme Court justices has imperiled this once hallowed institution.
— Franita Tolson, Dean of USC Law School & author of In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era
A must read on where the Court went wrong, and how to fix it.”
“Tang’s important book explains that the Supreme Court’s errors often stem from its overconfidence. He offers an innovative solution: justices should pursue the outcome that is likely to cause the least harm.”
— ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, DEAN OF BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL & AUTHOR OF WORSE THAN NOTHING: THE DANGEROUS FALLACY OF ORIGINALISM
“Aaron Tang has accomplished something extraordinary. He has written a smart and original book about how the Supreme Court should do its job. It is almost impossible to say something truly new about constitutional law that makes a contribution. Tang has done that with his least harm principle.”
— ERIC SEGALL, ASHE PROFESSOR OF LAW AT GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW & AUTHOR OF ORIGINALISM AS FAITH
As reviewed in the New York Review of Books and excerpted in Slate!
With hope for
a better future.
Aaron Tang
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