The War Power: Original and Contemporary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780872291614)

Louis Fisher is a specialist in constitutional law with the Law Library of the Library of Congress. From 1970 to 2006, he was senior specialist in separation of powers with the Congressional Research Service. He received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in 1967, taught for three years at Queens College, and has taught at a number of other universities and law schools since that time. He has testified more than forty times before congressional committees on a range of institutional and constitutional issues. His books include Presidential War Power, 2d ed. (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2004); In the Name of National Security (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2006); American Constitutional Law, 7th ed. (with David Gray Adler) (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007); The Politics of Executive Privilege (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004); Military Tribunals and Presidential Power (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2005); and Nazi Saboteurs on Trial, 2d ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005). He has published more than 350 articles in books, law reviews, political science journals, encyclopedias, magazines, and newspapers.