Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to Publish New Book About American Law

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch is writing a new book about American law.

Gorsuch will publish Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, written with Janie Nitze, next summer, according to a press release shared with PEOPLE by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.

The book, which examines new developments in American law, looks at how the legal system impacts the American people, and shares personal accounts from monks in Louisiana and families in Montana, among others.

Over Ruled aims to provide a look at how too much law “undermines our democracy, liberties, the equal treatment of all people and even respect for law itself," according to the book's description.

“For much of our history, the promise of equal treatment under the law looked more like an unserious fiction than an earnest ambition,” Gorsuch writes in the book. “While much remains to be done, we have made many strides to realize that promise, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

“The ideals embodied in our Declaration of Independence — that each of us enjoys certain inalienable rights, that all of us are created equal, that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed — have inspired billions of people around the world and captured truths that resonate in every human heart,” Gorsuch continues. “I would never bet against the American people.”

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Gorsuch published the book A Republic, If You Can Keep It in 2019. Nitze previously served as a Senate-confirmed board member for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. She has previously clerked for Gorsuch, as well as Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law will be published on Aug. 6 and is now available for preorder.