Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook) | Pamela S. Karlan, Mark V. Tushnet, ...

Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook) | Pamela S. Karlan, Mark V. Tushnet, ... | HORRIBLE

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	Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook) Pamela S. Karlan, Mark V. Tushnet, ... Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005 - 1704 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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I hate to say it because I've actually had both Prof. Stone and Sunstein as teachers and they are great men, but even with my personal bias for them, this is still a poorly written casebook. I used it for two classes - one that covered Equal Protection and one over the structure of government. The section of the book on Equal Protection isn't too bad. It has some nice historical material, and most people are already somewhat familiar with the cases anyway. However, the section of the book on government structure and the commerce clause is truly attrocious. The cases aren't well edited. Sometimes the result of a case will turn on a statute and the text and even title of that statute will have been edited out. Its hard to tell what is important from the cases consequently. There are long strings of cites in cases and the notes after the cases are cramped with no real headings and hard to make heads or tales of. Half the time you can't tell why you are reading a case - what your supposed to be getting out of it and how it relates to the other cases you've read.

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I am finishing my second year of law school, so I have read quite a few case books. This is BY FAR the worst.
I have the 5th edition.
The cases are poorly edited, leaving out important information.
But the notes are even worse. The notes are very poorly organized, with very few headings and sub-headings. Between cases there is a seemingly endless sea of words with very few interesting points to make. Instead of using footnotes for the ridiculous number of citations, the authors decided to use in-line cites. This makes the book EXTREMELY difficult to read. It is common to see an entire paragraph that is entirely comprised of citations (literally!). Even the normal paragraphs are too cluttered with cites to be readable. If you have about 40 hours per week to devote to ConLaw, then you might enjoy all the cites (you will need to look them up yourself, because most are not explained). But if you are a law student, you will not have time to wade through this ocean of rambling.
This is basically a 1,700 page sleeping pill.

Professors: please do not inflict this book on your students.
Use Chemerinsky instead.

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