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The Seventeenth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all areas of constitutional law, including judicial review, separation of powers, federalism, due process, equal protection, free speech, and religious liberty. It emphasizes constitutional law as a species of law, and aims to enable students who use it to practice constitutional law as lawyers. It also seeks to illuminate the historical, theoretical, and philosophical background that bears on constitutional law and informs its practice. The 17th edition thoroughly revises, updates and streamlines this classic casebook, emphasizing contemporary problems in areas from the war on terror to new uses of the Internet. Highlights of the 17th edition include updates on extensive coverage of the War on Terror (executive discretion on latest Guantanomo case in Chapter 6; update on decisions involving congressional civil rights enforcement power; the latest First Amendment cases involving fleeting expletives and religious monuments in public parks; updates on campaign finance (plus look at ;millionaire exception); voter identification requirements; and the right to bear arms (Second Amendment) individual right (Heller).
Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) Reviews
Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) Reviews
| 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:  Mediocre Textbook, By Robin Waltz (New York, NY) - See all my reviews This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover) Honestly, I really wanted to like this book because I am a big fan of Kathleen Sullivan, but this is not a great textbook. I am a second-year law student, so this book might work better for someone in an undergraduate course or someone reading Constitutional Law for fun. Pros: Good selection of cases to achieve the finer points of Constitutional Law Mostly useful notes after cases Cons: There are many typos in the casebook, and some weird citations. The formatting is generally poor, and I think they should have waited or had more copyediting done with this text. The notes section, though helpful as stated earlier, is often incredibly long, and this can make it hard to synthesize different portions of the notes together In this vein, sometimes portions of full cases that are cited later are referenced in lengthy notes earlier, when it would have been easier to merely insert the full case in the earlier section 1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:  opaque, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover) This textbook is by far the most opaque text I have ever read. While some of that comes from the opinions, the textbook authors don't really help. There are far too many cases in the notes sections, and some of those note cases are longer than the cases they denote separately. It's very hard to tell which are the important cases since many of the note cases are actually very important in history for different reasons. Hopefully if your professor assigns this textbook he is good at explaining the issues, because the textbook really doesn't do that very well. 0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:  A Case For A Well-Written Study ..., By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover) Constitutional Law started out by taking me from the highest level view of our Constitution, then carefully ~ blending Constitutional Law case rulings and the views of our Founding Fathers as expressed through both "The Federalist Papers" AND "The Anti-Federalist Papers" ~ taught me what our Founding Fathers truly intended us to know about the planet's greatest legal document ever conceived. This textbooks also crafts an understanding of what our Founding Fathers intended our Federal Government to do and should never do with each Citizen's individual freedoms and rights OVER and ABOVE the powers of our Federal Government ~ a point oft times forgotten in today's political landscape we're living in. The authors craft our Founding Fathers words and case precedence to enlighten the reader into precisely what every American citizen should know about the law of our Republic and how it applies to us every day in every aspect of our lives. In one sense, it is a guided tour... Read more |
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