Peter Irons

PETER H. IRONS is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and the author of numerous books on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional litigation. His recent books include The Steps to the Supreme Court, Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision and A People’s History of the Supreme Court.

Irons has received five Silver Gavel Awards from the American Bar Association. In 1988 he was chosen as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University.

When he’s not writing, Irons works as a civil rights attorney and political activist. This engagement with constitutional law and civil rights runs throughout his books, which examine landmark Supreme Court cases and the promise of legal equality.

Peter Irons’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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