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Constitutional Law Readings List

Constitutional Law
Patrick Fagan
Year 2001

Jeff Shaman. Constitutional Interpretation : Illusion and reality (2001). Book Review Available.

William Nelson. Marbury v. Madison : The origins and legacy of judicial review (2000). Book Review Available.

Michael Conant. Constitutional Structure and Purposes : Critical commentary (2001). Book Review Available.

CloseUp Foundation. The Bill of Rights : A user's guide (2001). http://www.closeup.org/

Richard H. Fallon, Jr. Implementing the Constitution (2001). Book Review Available.

Alpheus Mason and Donald Stephenson. American Constitutional Law: Introductory essays and selected cases
(Prentice-Hall, 2002): ISBN: 0-13-093293-0.

This new edition of a respected undergraduate casebook features the first significant change in the organization of materials. A new chapter, The Electoral Process, appears after the chapter on federalism and addresses reapportionment, the status of political parties, and BUSH v. GORE (2000). Also, in this edition the two commerce clause chapters of previous editions have been collapsed into one. Other changes appear in the chapter on freedom of expression, and several changes occur in the included cases. (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

Louis Fisher. American Constitutional Law : Separated powers and federalism (Carolina Academic Press, 2001): ISBN 0-89089-215-6.

This is a new edition of a constitutional law casebook designed for undergraduate students. The chapters space cases within commentary and selected congressional, executive, and other documents. Chapters include constitutional politics, doctrine of judicial review, threshold requirements, judicial organization, decision-making, separation of powers, federal-state relations, economic liberties, and efforts to curb the court. There are appendices with the Constitution, a table of justices, a glossary, and on how to research the law (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

Lee Epstein and Thomas Walker. Constitutional Law for a Changing America : Institutional powers and constraints (Congressional Quarterly, 2001): ISBN 1-56802-543-2.

Louis Fisher. American Constitutional Law: Civil rights and civil liberties (Carolina Academic Press, 2001): ISBN 0-89089-216-4.

This is a new edition of a civil rights and liberties casebook designed for undergraduate students. The chapters space cases within commentary and selected congressional and other documents. Chapters include free speech, freedom of the press, religious freedom, rights of the accused, search and seizure, racial discrimination, emerging group pressures, rights of privacy, political participation, and efforts to curb the court. There are appendices with the Constitution, a table of justices, a glossary, and on how to research the law (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

Lawrence Baum. The Supreme Court (Congressional Quarterly, 2000): ISBN 1-56802-524-6.

Gregg Ivers. American Constitutional Law : Power and politics, Volume 1 constitutional structure and political power (Houghton Mifflin, 2001): ISBN: 0-395-88983-9.

This new undergraduate constitutional law casebook opens with chapters on constitutional structure and constitutional interpretation. It then offers chapters on judicial power, legislative power, executive power, congressional commerce power, states' reserved powers, the contract clause, substantive due process, and the takings clause. Cases are integrated -- and marked using bolder type -- into the author's discussion of their historical and political implications and doctrinal importance. Most chapters offer a few "sidebars" or sections of a few pages with special information on a specific case. The book comes with a CD-ROM of oral arguments and website with hypothetical problems and appendices containing the Constitution, information on case briefing, and a guide to legal materials on the Internet (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

David O'Brien, editor. The Lanahan Readings in Civil Rights and Liberties (Lanahan Publishers,1999): ISBN: 0-9652687-6-4.

In this compendium designed for undergraduate classes the editor includes selections from thirty-two books and articles by civil liberties scholars and commentators. Topics include due process - substantive and criminal procedural, freedom of expression and religion, capital punishment, and social equality and personal liberty. Selections come from authors including Robert McCloskey, Thomas Emerson, Nadine Strossen, Anthony Lewis, Richard Kliger, Stephen Carter, Walter Berns, Charles Black, Wendy Williams, Ronald Dworkin, and Yale Kamisar (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

John Vile. A Companion to the United States Constitution and its Amendments (Praeger Publishers, 2001): ISBN: 0-275-97251-8.

This treatise, designed for undergraduates and a general public, offers a brief introductory historical background on the development of the Constitution and then proceeds to discuss the meaning of each section and amendment of the Constitution with reference to Supreme Court interpretations (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).

Harold Sullivan. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties : Provocative Questions and Evolving Answers (Prentice Hall, 2001): ISBN 0-13-084514-0.