Constitutional Law
Fifth Edition
Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago
Louis M. Seidman, Georgetown University
Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago
Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University
Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford University
2005. 1,808 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-5014-8. With Teacher's Manual and 2007 Case Supplement.
About the Book
The new edition of this best-selling casebook offers a variety of critical and social perspectives, drawing not only traditional doctrinal materials, but also on materials from political theory, philosophy, history, ethics, economics, and more. Long held in high regard for the quality of its scholarship, Constitutional Law responds to a broad range of current issues in its Fifth Edition.
Longtime users will recognize these distinctive characteristics:
- multi-disciplinary approach that utilizes a variety of critical and social perspectives to explore constitutional law
- extensive textual summaries of the state of the law and its development
- comprehensive book ideal for a two-semester course
- clear and concise coverage of First Amendment law
The Fifth Edition reflects recent developments and class experience:
- issues of constitutional obligation and constitutionalism in times of crisis incorporated into the opening chapter
- reorganization of materials on the powers of Congress, with the materials on "other powers of Congress" separated into a new Chapter Three
- completely updated chapter on the Distribution of National Powers, with new material growing out of the war on terrorism and its implications for free speech, immigration, naturalization, privacy, and due process, as well as enemy combatant controversies
- notes are shortened, simplified, and thoroughly updated
Preface / Sample Chapters
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Preface to the Fifth Edition
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