Jay Wexler, “The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions (Beacon, 2012)
Boston University School of Law Professor Jay Wexler offers readers an entertaining and enlightening tour through a “constitutional zoo” of ten strange-yet-important provisions of the Constitution of the United States in The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions (Beacon, 2012). As the nation’s foremost scholar of Supreme Court laughter (he could claim he invented the burgeoning field), Professor Wexler proves in this book that he is not just a critic of legal humor, Professor Wexler is a master himself. On the serious side, the work succeeds in…
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