Casenote Legal Briefs: Keyed to Constitutional Law: Chemerinsky

by Erwin Chemerinsky and Aspen Law Staff

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735535590
• ISBN13: 9780735535596
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 376 Pages

Customer Reviews

As Expected

I received the book in time and in the condition that was promised. Excellent provider. Thanks

Easy to understand

I ordered 5 law books to get prepared for law school and this one was the best. It scared me at first because it is so big but it is easy to read and understand. It contains all the interesting cases that was decided by the Supreme Court. I was able to read through the entire book in a month because I couldn't put it down. I start law school in August and I am looking forward to it.

Best Law Book Around

This book is the best law book that I have ever read. The cases are interesting and well abbreviated. The best part though - the notes before and after the cases. Chemerinsky does a great job of explaining what is going on. Instead of giving you ambiguous answers and rhetorical questions, this book actually explains the law. I will buy the next edition when it comes out, even though I will be out of law school. That's how good it is. This book should be standard at all schools, and should be the model for legal education text.

A Compelling Interest

Mr. Chemerinsky is surely one of the leaders in the education of constitutional law, and his casebook is well tailored for the beginning law school student. Instead of trying to impress other lawyers, or simply reprinting case text as-is with no synthesis (a criminally unpunished activity by many casebook creators), Chemerinsky states early on that this book is structured for the student. There is certainly plenty of supplemental information here, with Chemerinsky doing a fine job of synthesizing and categorizing the myriad dimensions of constitutional law, and usefully facilitating the student's learning experience through more than just reprinted cases. The only real problem with this book is its sheer size, which cannot be blamed only on the nature of the subject matter. In my three-credit, one-semester course we only got through about a quarter of the book. When creating a casebook that truly presents constitutional law for the student, which is Chemerinsky's goal, the editor should figure out a way to emphasize the bare fundamentals that should be mastered by the average student who has a limited amount of time available for doing so. [~doomsdayer520~]