About the Book
Constitutional Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems
Second Edition
Russell Weaver
University of Louisville
Steven Friedland
Nova University
Catherine Hancock
Tulane University
John Knechtle
Florida Coastal School of Law
Richard Rosen
Texas Tech
Bryan Fair
University of Alabama
2011. 1,200 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-0758-6. With Teacher's Manual.
About the Book
A comprehensive, problem-based casebook for the constitutional law course
Features:
- A casebook for the constitutional law course which is designed to be a “teacher’s book” by stimulating thoughts, inviting classroom discussion, and helping professors to teach more effectively.
- Uses a thought-provoking problem approach to help students delve deeper into constitutional doctrine and provide a more accessible and interesting way to learn constitutional issues.
- Includes the principal constitutional law cases, edited as lightly as possible. The authors allow the Supreme Court to speak for itself to the extent possible.
- Uses shorter notes combined with problems.
- Teachable length of under 1300 pages.
- Authors use successful approach used by Russell Weaver in casebooks for other courses.
- Detailed Teacher’s Manual provides users with insights into the problems and cases included in the book.
New to the Second Edition :
- Thoroughly updated, with many new Supreme Court decisions
- New and vastly improved problems at the beginning of each chapter that are returned to throughout the chapter, and, in some instances, throughout the book, to reinforce learning.
- Chapter overview at the beginning of each chapter.
- Constitution to be added in an appendix.
