Description:Now in its seventh year, this acclaimed annual publication, which comes out every September, brings together leading national scholars to analyze the Supreme Court's most important decisions from the term just ended and preview the year ahead. Cases critiqued in the 2007-08 edition include major Court decisions on the Second Amendment, the rights of enemy combatant detainees in Guantanamo and Iraq, the applicability of international law in state criminal proceedings, the regulation of political parties, and the biggest cases in decades in the areas of securities, patent, and energy law.