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Constitutional Analysis in a Nutshell
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This authoritative text provides a framework for understanding individual liberty and governmental power and the institutional role played by the Supreme Court of the United States. Coverage in this new improved edition includes all the major topics of the subject: judicial review: commerce clause and state powers: federalism: separation of powers: congressional and executive powers: and individual civil rights and civil liberties. Includes diagrams that aid understanding of the fundamentals of our system of government. Extremely accessible and comprehensive -- this is a paperback course in American Constitutional Law.
Constitutional Law in a Nutshell, 11th
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This 11th edition of Constitutional Law in a Nutshell summarizes constitutional law from Marbury v. Madison (1803), to the present. The goal has been to discuss the Supreme Court's cases in enough detail to be helpful but not to be verbose in doing so. This edition includes over thirty new cases. Among the decisions featured in this edition are two highly controversial departures from the Court's precedents. One such case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), discussed in Chapter 5, where the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833 (1992). The Court held in Dobbs that no right to abortion is implicit in any provision of the Constitution including the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, dissented and protested that Roe and Casey had "protected the liberty and equality of women" for half a century.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)Another controversial decision where the Court departed from precedent was Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina, 143 S. Ct. 2141 (2023), discussed in Chapter 6. The SFFA cases sought to terminate affirmative action in higher education. Chief Justice Roberts held for the Court that the admissions systems used by the two institutions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The multiple interests advanced by the universities to justify their race-based programs were not sufficiently measurable to be susceptible to judicial review. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented and objected that the majority decision entrenched "racial inequality in education."CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)In this edition as in past editions, where there is a particularly sharp division among the Justices, the position of the dissenters is briefly described. In this edition as in previous ones, discussion of the cases is concise yet sufficiently ample to be meaningful.
CrunchTime for Constitutional Law
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When it's exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers - you will be prepared for your next big test. Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams: Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam. Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Examples and Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights
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Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, 10th edition, by Allan Ides, Christopher N. May, and Simona Grossi, provides a clearly written, comprehensive examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to individual rights. This problem-oriented study guide provides students and teachers with a highly readable and accessible study of constitutional law. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. The text operates as a readable and citable treatise on the topics covered, and the examples and explanations serve as an elaboration on that text. Its unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy combines clear textual material with well-written, comprehensive and up-to-date examples, explanations, and questions. A favorite among law school students, and often recommended by professors, this guide takes students through the principal doctrines of constitutional law covered in a typical course that includes a study of individual rights. New to the Tenth Edition: Inclusion of nearly 50 new Supreme Court cases, and more than 30 state and lower federal court decisions Nearly 200 Examples & Explanations, many of them new and updated Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. (2022), overruling Roe v. Wade (1973), and leaving any protection of a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy up to the states Discussion of how state courts, applying state constitutions, have responded to the Court's invitation in Dobbs Consideration of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College (2023) and the Court's new, less deferential approach to race-based college admissions programs Expanded treatment of race-based legislative districting plans, including Alexander v. S.C. State Conf. of the NAACP (2024) Discussion of freedom of speech in the social media setting, as exemplified in recent decision in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC (2024) Exploration of the current Court's approach to resolving Establishment Clause claims, as set forth in Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist. (2022) Updated treatment of the right to keep and bear arms, as seen in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen (2022) and United States v. Rahimi (2024) Professors and students will benefit from: Hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis An alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures Straightforward, informal text that is never simplistic, and quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor Adaptability with all major Constitutional Law casebooks Authors with over 75 years of combined experience teaching Constitutional Law
Examples and Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism
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Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, 10th edition, by Christopher N. May, Allan Ides, and Simona Grossi, provides a clearly written, comprehensive examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to national power and federalism. This problem-oriented study guide provides students and teachers with a highly readable and accessible study of constitutional law. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. The text operates as a readable and citable treatise on the topics covered, and the examples and explanations serve as an elaboration on that text. Its unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy combines textual material with well-written, comprehensive and up-to-date examples, explanations and questions. A favorite among law school students, and often recommended by professors, this guide takes students through the principal doctrines of constitutional law covered in a typical course that covers the powers of the federal government and its constitutional relationship to the states. New to the Tenth Edition: Inclusion of more than 50 new Supreme Court cases, and over 15 new state and lower federal court decisions Nearly 200 Examples & Explanations, many of them new and updated Examination of the role of stare decisis, as exemplified in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. (2022), in overruling decisions like Roe v. Wade (1973) Discussion of the evolving "major questions doctrine" as a limitation on Congress's power to delegate authority to federal agencies, as applied in West Virginia v. EPA (2022) and Biden v. Nebraska (2023) Expanded consideration of a President's constitutional immunity from criminal prosecution, as delineated in Trump v. United States (2024) Exploration of the role that a state law's extraterritorial effects may play, and when a balancing of its burdens and benefits is appropriate. under the dormant Commerce Clause, as set forth in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023) Professors and students will benefit from: Hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis An alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures Straightforward, informal text that is never simplistic, and quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor Adaptability with all major Constitutional Law casebooks Authors with over 75 years of combined experience teaching Constitutional Law
The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law
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The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties offers a powerful combination of well-written explanations, multiple-choice questions, and analyses. Brannon P. Denning presents a clear and thoughtful overview of the constitutional doctrines that govern the structure and powers granted in the U.S. Constitution, as well as those that protect individual rights and liberties. Accessible and interactive, the Glannon Guide Series pedagogy teaches you to effectively answer exam questions as you review course content.
New to the Fourth Edition:
Updated with recent Supreme Court cases and related questions
Flowcharts and tables that visually illustrate and clarify complex areas of doctrine
New Closing Closers
Professors and students will benefit from:
Multiple choice questions at varying levels of difficulty, along with detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers that all students to self-test within each chapter
Clear, easy-to-understand descriptions of constitutional doctrine, including summaries of all major U.S. Supreme Court cases
Two sets of Closing Closers that allow for review following completion of the structure and powers and rights and liberties parts
Principles of Constitutional Law
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The authors, recognized authorities for over a third of a century, provide succinct and authoritative coverage of the major principles in modern American constitutional law. This book is a shortened version based on the authors' hornbook (popular with students) and their six-volume treatise (popular with judges, practitioners, and scholars). It analyzes the constitutional issues studied today, and discusses the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, federal commerce and spending powers, state powers in light of the dormant Commerce Clause, the war power, freedom of speech and religion, equal protection, due process, and other important individual rights and liberties. This book is completely up to date and includes all major Supreme Court cases through February, 2016, including the ground breaking First Amendment decisions of the Roberts' Court.
Questions and Answers
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This study guide includes 192 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 24 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." For each multiple-choice question, the authors provide a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less, and includes a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
A Short and Happy Guide to Constitutional Law
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This efficient book takes the complex subject matter of Constitutional Law and makes it easier to understand and digest. World-renowned Villanova Law Dean and Professor Mark Alexander carefully explains the key concepts involved in Con Law and also brings it home with straightforward explanations of why you are reading and discussing the cases you are assigned every day. The subject matter runs the gamut from Marbury v. Madison and the structural side of the course to Due Process and Equal Protection. In addition, he provides exam-taking tips, and general words of guidance on how to make it through law school, and beyond, to a rewarding legal career.
Principles of Constitutional Structure
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This book offers an overview of federalism, the separation of powers, and related matters of constitutional structure. It covers such topics as: the lawmaking powers of the national government (including those powers conferred by the Commerce Clause, the Taxing and Spending Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, the Enforcement Clauses of the Reconstruction Amendments, and other sources of federal legislative authority); federalism-based "external" constraints on congressional power (including those provided by the anti-commandeering principle, the "equal sovereignty" principle, and principles of state-sovereign immunity); federalism-based limits on state authority (including those imposed by the dormant Commerce Clause, the Article IV Privileges and Immunities Clause, and statutory preemption doctrine); structural constitutional principles concerning governmental entities other than the states (including Native nations, overseas territories, and the District of Columbia); and the horizontal allocation of power across the three branches of the federal government (including with respect to foreign and military affairs, the federal administrative state, the appointment and removal of executive-branch officials, impeachment, presidential and legislative immunities from judicial process, and the powers of the federal courts).
Understanding Constitutional Law
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Understanding Constitutional Law is a succinct but comprehensive treatment of constitutional law topics typically encountered in a first-year constitutional law class. The book provides the current black letter law doctrines alongside the historical background needed to understand them and the major lines of dissenting thought. It explains the methodological approaches the Court has taken to the topics it covers and is interspersed with commentary to help readers understand both those approaches and the rules they generate. Thus, the book is ideal for both students beginning their education in constitutional law and those seeking a deeper understanding. It's also suitable for practitioners seeking a sourcebook to help them analyze the constitutional law issues confronting them. The sixth edition features extensive treatment of all the significant changes in constitutional law that have occurred over the last several years, in areas including but not limited to Congress's power to create causes of action satisfying Article III's standing requirement, the President's immunity from criminal prosecution, the evolving status of the dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, the overruling of the due process right to abortion, the current status of race-based affirmative action in university admissions, the expansion of Free Exercise Clause protections, and the Court's first extended statement about the free speech rights of social media platforms. For ease of use, the new edition has eliminated coverage of some cases that have been overruled or have faded in importance while retaining slimmed down discussions of older cases that remain influential even in the face of new doctrine announced by the Court.
Emanuel Law Outlines for Constitutional Law
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ABOUT THE BOOK--TOOLS TO SUCCEED The Capsule Summary provides a quick reference summary of the key concepts covered in the full Outline. The detailed course Outline with black letter principles supplements your casebook reading throughout the semester and gives structure to your own outline. The Quiz Yourselffeature includes a series of short-answer questions and sample answers to help you test your knowledge of the chapter's content. Exam Tips alert you to issues and commonly used fact patterns found on exams. The Casebook Correlation Chart correlates each section in the Outline with the pages covering that topic in the major casebooks. INCLUDED IN THIS NEW EDITION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EMANUEL® LAW OUTLINE Coverage of key 2023-2024 Supreme Court developments, including: Trump v. U.S., holding that Presidents are entitled to at least a presumption of immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts. In some contexts, the immunity is absolute, and in others, the President benefits from a strong "presumption of immunity" that will be difficult for the prosecution to rebut. U.S. v. Rahimi, a Second Amendment case, holding that government may restrict certain persons from owning guns. However, the restriction must be "relevantly similar" to restrictions that existed in 1791. Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, indicating that government likely violates the free-expression rights of a social media platform if government enacts an "anti-censorship" rule that requires the platform to include third-party posts that the platform wants to keep off the site. Murthy v. Missouri, a case about standing, holding that a plaintiff does not have standing unless she can show that a favorable outcome in the suit would "redress" the harm from whatever action (usually a government action) the plaintiff is challenging.
Federal Constitutional Law (Volume 1)
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This softcover book is the first volume of the six-volume Federal Constitutional Law Modular Casebook Series. This innovative modular approach to the material facilitates a focused study of particular topics within the field of federal constitutional law. Coverage includes: Introduction to the basic texts, including the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution; Interpretations based on the structure of government, constitutional text, and history; Interpretations based on the drafting and ratification debates; Interpretations based on traditional understandings of the Constitution and judicial precedents; Judicial review and standards of review; Congressional power to structure and control the judiciary; and Justiciability doctrines.
Federal Constitutional Law (Volume 2)
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Volume Two of Federal Constitutional Law, part of the Modular Casebook Series, focuses on the key arguments employed by the Supreme Court, as well as arguments made in Congress and by executive officials. Each case or selection of legislative or executive material is followed by an exercise that contains detailed suggested questions that engage students in the reading, facilitate their mastery of the material, and prompt robust classroom discussion.
Federal Constitutonal Law
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This is the third volume in the innovative Federal Constitutional Law Modular Casebook Series. This modular approach to the material makes it possible for instructors to mix and match a suitable number of volumes for a course of varying length and focus. Volume 3 explores: Federal taxing power; Federal spending power; The concept of enumerated powers and the Necessary and Proper Clause; The commerce power before and after the New Deal, and today; and Congressional enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment. Like all volumes in the Modular Casebook Series, Federal Legislative Power provides extensive historical background for the cases and materials, focuses students on the key arguments employed by the Supreme Court, and follows each case with detailed suggested questions that engage students in the reading and prompt robust classroom discussion. Faculty members may successfully utilize Federal Legislative Power as part of a standard constitutional law course on constitutional structure and powers.
Skills and Values: Constitutional Law
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Skills and Values: Constitutional Law brings practical context to what is possibly the most abstract and thus, for many students, frustrating course in the basic law school curriculum. The heart of the book are problems which pose constitutional law issues in the context of situations a lawyer is likely actually to encounter in her practice. As practical problems they require the student to perform functions required of a practicing lawyer, ranging from deposition preparation to letter-drafting to presentation of legal concepts to lay audiences. The problems thus require students to demonstrate mastery of doctrine in the context of real-world problems that call for practical lawyering skills. Each chapter begins with a summary of the underlying doctrine the student will be expected to know and apply in the problem. It then presents the problem, which usually includes significant primary materials the student will be expected to mine for legally relevant content. The assignments are explained clearly, and time expectations (based on the assignment's difficulty) are provided. Two aspects of these problems stand out for professors seeking to prepare their students for modern practice realities. First, the assignments require students to work in groups of varying size. This feature responds to the reality that legal work is usually done collegially. Too often law school downplays the role of group work; these problems encourage it. Second, several assignments include ethics components, which require students to consider how their choices about performing the assigned tasks implicate ethical issues. This feature reflects the authors' focus on ensuring that students get this sort of ethical training, and that they get it in the context of substantive learning rather than solely as a stand-alone class in legal ethics. The real-world nature of the problems presented, the requirement of collegial problem-solving, and the focus on ethics that together characterize this book respond to recent critiques of legal education, such as those in the 2007 Carnegie Report. They also respond to student concerns and desires to learn law in a manner relevant to their career goals, through group-learning activities of the sort that likely marked their undergraduate education, and with a consistent focus on the ethical practice of law.
Constitutional Law, 7th ed.
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