Title: Constitutional Law for a Changing America Pdf Rights, Liberties, and Justice (Ninth Edition)
Author: Lee Epstein
Published Date: 2015-09-15
Page: 820
"Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice is superb. It entertains students while forcing them to think about the cases and issues. That is a rare achievement for a textbook. [The book] does a great job of placing the cases within the context of their particular eras and reminds students that you cannot divorce courts and their rulings from the rest of the political structure and the times in which the opinions are issued. The text blends social science and law better than any other available today." "Constitutional Law for a Changing America is a great teaching textbook. Most constitutional law textbooks begin with an interpretive essay, and then just give the cases one after the other in a separate section. [This book] introduces each topic in a comprehensive way, but then embeds the cases in a narrative that helps students see the cases in context. The authors do a great job of introducing each case, explaining how it relates to other cases and pointing out specific things to look for, to help students think about what they′re reading. Combined with the bullet points in the new editions summarizing the arguments for both sides in each case, this is tremendously effective in helping students learn and understand both the details of the cases and their broader significance. The photos and "Aftermath" boxes give students a vivid sense of human stories behind the cases. I use this book with confidence that it will help me teach more effectively." "Constitutional Law for a Changing America perfectly balances contextual material with the text of the opinions. No other casebook comes close to matching the depth and breadth of supplementary information. The various tables, charts, and graphs all help students place the Court in the broader context of the American political system. The authors accomplish this while still maintaining a focus on constitutional questions and debates. Especially useful are the "Arguments" sections, which are an exceptionally effective tool for engaging students with the different perspectives in the cases." "My students like the Epstein/Walker text not only because the cases are edited in a way that allows for easy reading, but also because the facts and arguments of each case are separated from the decision itself, giving students some guidance in their reading. The additional excerpts provide context for students that they always want to discuss. As an instructor, I like the online bank of cases because the additional resources permit for flexibility in what cases I choose to cover in class." Lee Epstein is Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A recipient of 12 grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on law and legal institutions, Epstein has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and essays, as well as 15 books, including The Choices Justices Make (co-authored with Jack Knight), which won the Pritchett Award for the Best Book on Law and Courts and the Lasting Contribution Award for making a “lasting impression on the field of law and courts.” The Constitutional Law for a Changing America series (co-authored with Thomas G. Walker) received the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent books are The Behavior of Federal Judges, with William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner, and An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, with Andrew D. Martin.
the clarity of case explanations and the overall organization make this a pretty good textbook Ordered this book for one of my Con Law classes and it is probably one of the most informative books I've come across. The amount of cases covered, the clarity of case explanations and the overall organization make this a pretty good textbook.Useful but expensive Both this book and the Institutional Powers book by the same authors are used at my University for the Constitutional Law courses. It is, as most law texts are, a little dry, kind of dull, and a whole lot of information crammed into a thick book in small type. That being said, Epstein & Walker succeed in making the information more accessible than any other textbook I've had to use in my studies on the same subject matter, and include photographs on major cases to help students place the information. They also contextualize the case information, giving the technical explanations and following with a more colloquial summary to ensure that the major points are understood.The books do tend to be on the expensive side (in the realm of PoliSci texts, anyway), so if you know you're taking the class and if your school, like mine, uses this book across the board, it's best to buy it in the middle of a semester when those who have dropped are just trying to unload the book as quickly as possible. I managed to find it for under $35 on Amazon where it usually retails for around $75 (still significantly less than campus bookstores, even for used editions!).Rights, Liberty, and Justice This book serves as a useful companion to the other CLCA title Institutional Power and Constraints and contains excerpted cases on things like incorporation of the Bill of Rights onto States, the Free Exercise of Religion, What constitutes Free Speech, Obscenity and Libel Law and it even includes the excerpted version of Roe v. Wade. For every Con. Law Geek, the real value of the book may be in the online case archive. The online case archive has hundreds of supplemental cases that give the avid law geek hours and hours of enjoyment. I would like to point out to the person who commented about there being no full cases just excerpts of cases, there are many useful websites, such as [...] where the full opinions can be found, to write papers but as the book is designed for college courses full opinions would not be practical because you'd have either a 5,000 page weighty albatross of a book to get all the cases excerpted here in full or a multi-volume edition that would not be cost-efficient to the budgeted college student.
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