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Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook)
by: Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet, Pamela S. Karlan

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73
EAN: 9780735550148
ISBN: 073555014X
Label: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1704
Publication Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Sales Rank: 3801
Studio: Aspen Publishers, Inc.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Awful, Horrible, Bad
Content
The editing sucks. The notes suck. The case selection sucks.

Construction
This book shares the same physical problems that all Aspen casebooks suffer. The binding sucks. The book will not lay flat; the hump in the pages makes it hard to read, damn near impossible to underline. The paper is too thin, print shows through not only from the other side of the page, but from other pages below. The paper is an icky off white. The font is funky with awkward leading and hard to read. The margins are non-existent. Forget about writing in the book. The cover is cheaply made and wears poorly.

Compare to a University Casebook Series book which lies flatter, has wide margins, easy to read font and page layout, nice white paper, and excellent build quality.

UPDATE: By the end of the semester, no one in my class of over 60 was still reading this book. Don't waste your money ... Read More

Rating:

- buy the casenotes....
Truly one of the worst law school books I've used so far. Everything the other (negative reviews) said was true. The author doesn't use footnotes, captions, endnotes, or offset text. No it is all just thrown together in one huge block of text on the page. The reading is nothing more than wading thru a morass of text which actually has no real bearing on the cases presented and doesn't add anything constructive to the understanding of the nuances of the case. horrible writing. Horrible editing. This book would be 1000% better if all supporting text was removed and nothing more than the bare cases were presented.

If you are a professor, don't use this book.
If you are a student, buy casenotes and only read the cases from this book.

Rating:

- So much cheaper than the 2005 edition
If you are buying this, I assume you are buying because you have to for class. In that case you will likely have noticed that the current edition is vastly more expensive and came out only 2 years after this edition. How much could the law change in 2 years? Is it false economy to scrimp on the books when you are paying through the teeth for law school already?

Here I attempt to answer these questions.

I used this edition of the book rather than the 2005 edition for both Con Law 1 and 2. The changes from this edition to the newer one were minor. In Con Law 1, I had to pull two new cases off FindLaw and only had to pull one new case for Con Law 2. Other than that the books were similar and most assigned readings were word for word the same between editions.

An added bonus was that the professors for both classes have been teaching the subject for years, and in the three sections ... Read More

Rating:

- Reasonable - Good Historical Materials
I've had cause to study this book a little for a course in Constitutional Problems at the University of Western Australia. Inevitably - while my requirements cannot be as detailed or exhaustive as that of my American friends, I found it a useful guide to the major cases and enjoyed the historical references. I particularly enjoyed the Race and the Constitution (equality and 14th amendment stuff) chapter and the dicussion of the case law preceding Brown v. Board of Education.

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