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Title: Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Aspen's Introduction to Law Series) by Erwin Chemerinsky ISBN: 0735524289 Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Really understand Con Law (and help your grade, too)
Comment: A central problem with teaching law by the casebook method is that most students also need a clear, expert roadmap of how the cases fit together, and how a particular doctrine that emerges from a line of cases -- sometimes over a century or more -- has evolved, changed, and operates today. Outlines of the black letter law (e.g. Gilberts) aren't as useful for something doctrinal like con law. You want clear exposition in prose. You want concise descriptions of all the important cases and what they stand for. You want Chemerinsky.
All con law students should be grateful that one of the nation's leading Constitutional practitioners and professors has written this book. Its size is intimidating, but that's because it covers far more territory than the typical intro con law class. It's so well-done, though, that it's something serious students and lawyers will want on their bookshelves long after the first year -- as a supplement for advanced-topics classes, and as an essential reference work.
The book is well-organized in an outline format with headings and subheads, so you can easily follow the thread of complex doctrine over time, like the Commerce Clause, or across its varied applications, like Equal Protection. Chapters are thorough but well divided. The organization allows you to find exactly what you need and to zero in on a particular narrow point or case, or to read more expansively about a doctrine's development, change, and varied application. Chemerinsky's prose is neutral, straightforward, always clear. He's analytical but doesn't make arguments. You couldn't say his writing has personality, but it is quite readable.
This book is the con law supplement of choice at my school (Michigan). No one I know has regretted buying it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Con Law is suddenly clear to me now!
Comment: My Con Law prof is using Sullivan's "Constitutional Law" (14th Ed., University Casebook Series) as our textbook, and our entire class is overwhelmed by both the concepts and the density of the reading (it takes four hours to read 25 pages!).
Then I picked up this book by Chemerinksy, which recommended by our professor. It's /amazing/. We're working on the dormant commerce clause, and Chemerinsky sets out everything incredibly clearly, citing cases (rather than including the entire case itself) and setting out black letter law in an explanation of the Court's rulings. Everything is much easier to understand, and it's much easier to pick out the important issues in the textbook when I read the next assignment. I recommend reading Chemerinsky first, and the textbook second, so the rules pop out at you more readily.
Rating: 5
Summary: great book for preparing for con law exam
Comment: This is a great book in preparing for a con law exam. Read it if you've never had con law before because it is also a good primer. Concepts like preemption are commandeering are explained quite well.
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Title: Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (The Examples & Explanations Series) by Joseph W. Glannon ISBN: 073551982X Publisher: Panel Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Constitutional Law by Erwin Chemerinsky ISBN: 0735520615 Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $87.00 |
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Title: Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism (Examples & Explanations Series) by Christopher N. May, Allan Ides ISBN: 0735520003 Publisher: Panel Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy R. Paul ISBN: 0890897603 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: American Constitutional Law (University Textbook Series) by Laurence H. Tribe ISBN: 1566627141 Publisher: Foundation Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
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