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Title: American Constitutional Law (University Textbook Series) by Laurence H. Tribe ISBN: 1-56662-714-1 Publisher: Foundation Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent treatise on American Constitutional Law.
Comment: In this first volume of the soon to be two volume third edition, Professor Tribe does an excellent job of articulating the most prominent arguments of today, as well as an excellent analysis of all constitutional law topics. After reading any topic in this book it is hard to believe that there is more to know on that issue, but if there is, the place to find it is in the excellent citations this book has to offer. These citations alone would be reason to purchase this book.
As a law student in a first year con law class, my recommendation to every law student is to buy this book, and the second volume when it comes out, as soon as you can, you will not need another hornbook or study aid.
Rating: 5
Summary: The next best thing to attending Professor Tribe's lectures
Comment: If you have not yet had a chance to grace the doors of Harvard Law School, this is your opportunity to experience the wit and wisdom of Professor Laurence Tribe on the subject of constitutional law. The book is an invaluable addition to any federal court litigator's arsenal, and many aspects of it can usefully be referred to by law students as well. The book is especially interesting and informative with respect to the intricate and often quite creative connections it draws between constitutional provisions and doctrines that on their face do not seem particularly interrelated. The historical overviews of the development of key constitutional doctrines are especially riveting, and will likely interest individuals in a broad variety of fields.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a great resource for students
Comment: I purchased this book before my first year of law school. I figured that reading this would help me in my constitutional law class. In retrospect, I think that purchasing this book was probably a waste of money and that there were much better constitutional law treatises I could have bought.
Perhaps the biggest problem I had with this treatise is that it is not complete. It is part one of a projected two-part treatise. This frustrated me, as more than half the topics covered in my class were not given treatment in this book. Topics not covered in this volume include: the First Amendment, Equal Protection, the Fifth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities Clause.
Even the chapters in this book that overlapped with topics covered in my class were not helpful. This is largely because of Tribe's writing style. He does not devote much space to discussing individual cases. Instead he cites a case to stand for a particular proposition, and then moves on. He may cite the same case several different times, each cite being hundreds of pages apart. The result is that as much time is spent flipping through pages as is spent reading Tribe's analysis of the case in question.
Tribe's style is also very difficult to follow. At times he is prolix, writing about "construction of the constitutional architecture," and "two strands intertwined in a single, grand fabric of law and politics." At other times he covers topics in such micro-detail that one is left wondering if Tribe is showing off. One reader commented on this, saying that the book is worth purchasing for the footnotes alone. I disagree. I do not think that most readers will have time to read Tribe's footnotes--many of which are hundreds of words long--nor will they have time to read the thirty cases mentioned within each footnote, many of which are essential to read if one is to understand the thrust of Tribe's point.
I give this book three stars, a middle-of-the-road rating. I do this because I realize that Tribe's book may be of tremendous utility to a law professor, or to a student who is writing a law review note on a topic of constitutional interest. For first year law students, however, Tribe's book is best avoided. Better resources for the first-year student include: Emanuel's Constitutional Law Outline and Erwin Chemerinksy's "Constitutional Law Principles and Policies." Both of those titles give clearer and more spot-on analysis of topics typically covered in first-year constitutional law courses.
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Title: Constitutional Law (Hornbook Series and Other Textbooks) by John E. Nowak, Ronald D. Rotunda ISBN: 0314237488 Publisher: West Wadsworth Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning by Jethro Koller Lieberman ISBN: 0520212800 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions by Kermit L. Hall ISBN: 0195118839 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: On Reading the Constitution by Michael C. Dorf, Laurence H. Tribe ISBN: 0674636260 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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