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Inside Constitutional Law: What Matters and Why, Second Edition

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Authors
  • Russell L. Weaver
  • Catherine Hancock
  • Donald E. Lively
  • Steven I. Friedland
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Book length
608 pages
Publication Date
2014-10-29
Edition
Second Edition
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Concise, engaging, and pedagogically rich, Inside Constitutional Law solidifies students’ understanding of the essentials. Rather than presenting exhaustive citations and excessive doctrinal detail, Inside Constitutional Law: What Matters and Why focuses on helping students to clearly understand key topics in-depth. Students become more engaged in the course by thorough explanations that demystify the material without oversimplifying it. They come to understand not only the rules, but also what makes them interesting and important. Features to enhance learning are prominent throughout. Overviews position chapter topics within the course and show why each matters. FAQs are carefully spelled out and given straightforward answers to clear up the most common mistakes and misconceptions. Sidebars offer study tips, practice pointers, and additional insights. Replicating the classroom use of whiteboards, PowerPoint and other visual aids, graphics, charts, photos, and cartoons help illustrate key concepts. Chapter summaries and bolded key terms facilitate studying and review, and “Connections” at the end of each chapter tie the material to other chapters, encouraging students to consider “Where have I been?” and “Where am I going?”

The Second Edition introduces new material on important new cases: Arar v. Ashcroft on the president's power to fight terrorism, Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum on First Amendment and the right to erect permanent monuments on public property, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on corporations and campaign finance, Snyder v. Phelps on the conflict between freedom of expression and intentional infliction of mental and emotional distress, and other cases from the Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 term such as Schwarzenegger. Updated coverage of the various issues related to gay and lesbian equal protection issues includes discussion of “don't ask, don't tell” and gay marriage, among others.

Features:

  • Solidifies students’ understanding of the essentials of the course
    • avoids exhaustive citations and excessive doctrinal detail
    • focuses on clear, in-depth examination of civil procedure
  • Engaging explanations that demystify without oversimplifying
  • Tackles common misconceptions, enabling deeper understanding
  • Explains the rules - what makes them interesting and important
  • Enhanced learning features
    • Overviews
      • position the topic within the course
      • students understand the topic and why it matters
    • FAQs
      • straightforward answers
      • clear up the most common mistakes and misconceptions
    • Key Terms
      • essential terminology highlighted and defined when first introduced
    • Sidebars
      • study tips
      • practice pointers
      • further insights and information
    • Graphics replicate whiteboards, PowerPoint and other visual aids
      • charts
      • photos
      • cartoons
    • Chapter summaries
    • Bolded key terms for review
    • “Connections” at the end of each chapter
      • connect the material to other chapters
      • ask students to consider “Where have I been?” and “Where am I going?

Thoroughly updated, the revised Second Edition presents:

  • Coverage of key, important new cases
    • Arar v. Ashcroft on the President's power to fight terrorism
    • Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum on First Amendment and the right to erect permanent monuments on public property
    • Citizens United v. Feder
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About the authors
Russell Weaver
University of Louisville

Professor Russell L. Weaver graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. He was a member of the Missouri Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and won the Judge Roy Harper Prize. After law school, Professor Weaver was associated with Watson, Ess, Marshall Enggas in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked for the U.S. Department of Energy#39;s Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. Professor Weaver began teaching at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 1982, and holds the rank of Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar. He teaches the First Amendment, Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Remedies, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure. He has received the Brandeis School of Law#39;s awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, and has been awarded the President#39;s Award (University of Louisville) for Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity in the Field of Social Science, the President#39;s Award for Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity in the Career Achievement Category, and the President#39;s Award for Distinguished Service. He is an Honorary Associate of Macquarie University Law School (Sydney, Australia). He was named the Judge Spurgeon Bell Distinguished Visiting Professor at South Texas College of Law (affiliated with Texas A M University) during the 1998-99 academic year, and he held the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, University of Memphis, during 1992-93. Professor Weaver is a prolific author who has written dozens of books and articles over the last 25 years. In addition, he has been asked to speak at law schools and conferences around the world, and has been a visiting professor at law schools in France, England, Germany, Japan, Australia and Canada. Professor Weaver is particularly noted for his work in the constitutional law area, especially his writings on free speech. In addition to authoring quot;From Gutenberg to the Internet: Free Speech, Advancing Technology and the Implications for Democracy,quot; and quot;The Right to Speak Ill,quot; he served as a consultant to the constitutional drafting commissions of Belarus and Kyrghyzstan and as a commentator on the Russian Constitution. He has also authored a Constitutional Law casebook (with Aspen Publishing), a First Amendment casebook (with LexisNexis), Understanding the First Amendment (LexisNexis), a Criminal Procedure casebook (West), a Criminal Law casebook (West), an Administrative Law casebook (West), and a tort casebook (LexisNexis). Professor Weaver has served on many community and professional committees. He is the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Trustees (as well as a past president) of the Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools. He has also served on the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky#39;s Legal Panel and Board of Directors. He served on the Louisville Bar Association#39;s (LBA) Professional Responsibility Committee, as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools#39; (AALS) Criminal Justice Section and has served on the AALS Planning Committee for the New Law Teacher#39;s Workshop.

Catherine Hancock
Tulane University

Professor Hancock is Geoffrey C. Bible & Murray H. Bring Professor of Constitutional Law at Tulane Law School. She joined the faculty after a clerkship with Judge James L. Oakes on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Brattleboro, Vermont. &Her pro bono activities include eight years of service as co-counsel pursuing federal remedies for a death row inmate whose case she argued in the US Supreme Court in 1990. &She has co-authored an Aspen casebook on Constitutional Law, a LexisNexis casebook on the First Amendment, and West casebooks on Constitutional Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law. &Her teaching fields include these four subjects, as well as Federal Courts and Law & Gender, and she has taught Comparative Criminal Procedure in Tulane’s summer programs in France and Toronto. &Her First Amendment scholarship focuses on issues related to defamation law and hate speech, and her work in Constitutional Criminal Procedure addresses topics such as police interrogations and searches, privacy rights, and the death penalty. She was honored for her writing with the Sumter Marks Award in 2002 and the C. J. Morrow Research Professorship of Law in 2004-2005. &She received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award from the graduating classes of 1992, 1998, and 2005.

Product Information
Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2014-10-29
Copyright Year
2015
Pages
608
Paperback
9781454810988
Subject
Constitutional Law
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