Product Description
The Sixteenth 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 l… More >>
#1 by Smile of Reason on March 20, 2010 - 2:48 pm
Say that you did not flunk the 2005 California bar exam.
How could a middle-aged feminist lawyer who is a former professor at Harvard Law School and Dean of the Stanford Law School flunk the bar exam? Is the exam unconstitutional? Does the exam discriminate against women? Are you entitled to a law license under the 9th Amendment? Inquiring minds want to know.
Explain why you are qualified to edit a casebook, but you are not qualified (for the time being) to practice law in California. Of course, you did not write the opinions in this casebook. However, you did select the cases, edit them, and write the notes and questions about them.
Like a pack of cigarettes, this book should bear a warning on the cover: “The author flunked the bar exam after she edited this casebook”
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 20, 2010 - 4:01 pm
I am a law student and am currently laboring through this utterly incomprehensible piece of incoherent thought. It does not flow. It is hard to follow and is not a good text on the subject. The author doesn’t provide adequate, unbiased information about the cases. He begins his analysis of each case by attempted to discredit other interpretations of each case by asserting his own perspective. This is supposed to be a comprehensive beginning text for Constitutional law. He not only assumes that you have prior knowledge of each case, but also that you have done extensive reading on the individual issues as well. Here’s a tip for the author. We all know that your smart, and that you know this subject (that’s why we bought your book!) Don’t try to impress us with you comprehensive knowledge of con law. START AT THE BEGINNING and make us understand the fundamentals of each case before launching into a huge abstruse self discussion of other authors perspectives. We have not read those other authors yet. This book is too hard to read. It is not written well. I can not imagine actually reading all 1500 pages of it without killing myself first. I would rather read a dictionary cover to cover, at least that would be slightly less mind numbing. My only hope is that the author will revamp this book keeping in mind that there are actually going to be people who will have to read it cover to cover. Thanks
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Heather Salamone on March 20, 2010 - 5:09 pm
But it is super informative, anyone who is interested in Constitutional Law should use it as a resource. It not only gives background but also history and what has come about because of Supreme Court decisions.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on March 20, 2010 - 6:36 pm
Don’t even bother with this one. Get Emanuel’s. It’s a million times clearer, a billion times more readable, and a trillion times more helpful for the final exam. Thanks again, Mr. Steven L. Emanuel; you are a savior.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Sarfraz Hajee on March 20, 2010 - 9:31 pm
This new copy came in in less than two days and was still cheaper than the bookstore’s used copies.
thanks
Rating: 5 / 5