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

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

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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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"All readers interested in today's constitutional courts will profit from eavesdropping on this conversation."
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This collection of essays on constitutional law is designed to introduce the reader to the range of issues concerning constitutional theory that occupy the attention of constitutional scholars in the United States today.

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as detailed or exhaustive as that of my American friends, I found it a useful guide to the major cases and enjoyed the historical references.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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A Review

Book was fine, a little worse than they described but I don't mind the highlighting and writing inside so its fine.

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 that were significantly different both tended to teach focused on the older edition. In one class, the previous edition had an older case which had been replaced by the Gore Bush election recount case (an added case). The older case had been shortened to a note, but the professor elaborated on it. Not only was I not lost for using the older book - I had an edge.

I highly recommend economizing by buying the older book in this case. Constitutional law does not change frequently, and this did not disadvantage me. And to quell any doubts, I scored in the top third for both classes.

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