Common law & the Constitution

Some argue that a common law approach to interpreting the U.S. Constitution is the way to go. But what exactly is common law? And what does it have to do with the Constitution? Legal scholars Cass Sunstein and David Strauss join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, is author of "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-wing Courts Are Wrong for America." Strauss, Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, is finishing the book "The Common Law Constitution."