Book Description
Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.
Customer Reviews:
Saved Me in Constitutional Law.......2007-09-01
If you are a 1L taking Constitutional Law, GET THIS BOOK. As a 1L, I found the Con Law cases (especially the older ones) hard to understand and confusing. Chemerinsky writes in clear and concise language and really helps point out the issues and underlying implications of Supreme Court decisions to 1Ls who are unused to reading such long decisions. I recommend reading this book simultaneously with your case book just to make sure you "got it."
Without question, the best Con Law book available.......2007-06-23
It is hard to add to what the previous reviewers have stated. Howecver, simply adding another confirmation to a prior review would not do this book justice. Therefore, I felt compelled to write a seperate review.
Without this book, I would not have passed Con Law.
This is indeed an excellent book in that it puts the different parts of the subject into context. The author does a great job of clearly trying to explain what the reasoning is behind the concepts and how the whole subject is supposed to fit together. Unlike most other books, the author actually is successful in doing this - so by the time a chapter is finished, the reader has a very good grasp of the topic.
Essential for Con Law.......2007-05-23
I cannot say enough good things about this book. Chemerinsky takes the most difficult and complex con law issues and explains them with such clarity: "this is what the court said...this is what it means." I had a great Con Law professor, but I doubt I would have passed without Chemerinsky. In fact, I bought this book because my professor told me she refers to it when she wants to brush up on a particular issue.
Further, this is a book you'll want to keep. Substantive due process, equal protection, and other con law issues pop up in most areas of law. You'll be glad to have this book handy when they do.
Greatest book ever........2007-05-19
I stopped reading my Con law casebook about 2 weeks into class and started reading this instead. This book saved me from certain failure in this class. The single best thing about this book is that he puts everything in context. I think failing to connect the dots and understand how concepts are related to each other is what makes this course so difficult. Erwin is the man!
I used the older edition, which worked out just fine and was much cheaper.
A Must for Difficult Con Law Classes.......2007-05-13
Chemerinsky's assessment of constitutional case law is brief, clear and easy to read. The book itself is beautifully structured and contains every critical case up to 2006.
Only one Caveat: Chemerinsky is a highly lauded and respected Constitutional scholar, but his viewpoint is his own and it comes out in his case redaction and descriptions. Chemerinksy is perfect for tying the bigger picture together, but it always is a good idea to read the cases yourself.
Book Description
Floyd G. Cullop's study of The Constitution Of The United States carefully explains and comments on its Preamble, main body and amendments so that readers may fully understand what it meant to our founding fathers and what it means to us today. This revised and updated edition covers all the changes that have been made in the structure of the federal government since the original publication of the book. This is the ideal introduction to a document that remains as relevant today as when it was first drafted over two hundred years ago.
Customer Reviews:
The Constitution.......2007-06-08
This booklet helps explain our founding documents. Everyone in the US should read it.
Revised indeed. Whose Constitution is this?.......2006-07-05
Buy it only if the price is 50% off. That's because the first half of the work is a poorly written interpretation of our nation's most sacred document. Thankfully, the actual Constitution is provided in the second half. In the first 60 pages, the left-leaning declarations are so bizarre, it is hard to consider this book a serious work.
Mr. Cullop claims that the 16th Amendment allows for economic redistribution through Federal income tax, "The higher the earnings, the higher the percentage collected from them." This concept comes from the author, not the 16th Amendment.
Cullop also settles the controversial 2nd Amendment by declaring that the people have gun rights only as they apply to the militia. He repeats this interpretation at least two times in the test portions of the book without offering any dissent. Interestingly, the author's aversion to gun rights collides with his need to define all but basic words: "...may keep and bear (own) arms (weapons)." Hopefully, most readers know that "bear" in fact means to carry, not own.
The parenthetical definitions of even the most simple terms are so frequent that the book is often difficult to read: "Congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate (necessary) legislation (laws)." Most readers aside from small children can probably do without "tyranny" being defined as "unusually harsh rule."
Mr. Cullop either lacks understanding of the basic concepts of the Constitution, or he makes very unfortunate choices in language: "Q: Have women always had the right to vote in the United States? A. No, they were GIVEN THIS RIGHT [emphasis added] by Amendment 19 in 1920."
If this irresponsible analysis of the US Constitution was written for children, it should be marketed as such. And if so, impressionable young readers should be especially discouraged from reading it.
A simple but great intro tour through the Constutution........2005-03-17
This is a nuts and bolts introductory book on the Constitution. It definately dosn't analyze anything to any degree whatsoever, but if your looking for that there are plenty of other books to consider. This is one to start with.
I liken it to a foreign language text where you get A LOT of instantaneous feedback in the manner of quizes and fill in the blank questions. Thats the best part of the book. It somewhat forces you to remember (at least once) the prime points by asking you about what youve just read.
Read it often.......2004-08-25
About a year ago, I saw a movie called The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The movie is about President Chavez in Venezuela and the failed coup attempt on his presidency. In the background coverage of his presidency, the filmmakers recounted how as President, he encouraged his citizens to read their brand new constitution and learn it. They interviewed some Venezuelans who did not know to read, but had learned to read by reading their constitution.
I was touched by this, but then I thought "how many Americans can say they've read the Constitution?" My guess is probably not many. And those that have only did it for school and have since forgotten much of what they learned. Personally, I remember having to memorize the Bill of Rights for a class, but that's about it.
So I bought a copy of the Constitution for myself and began reading it.
In a time when Congress is passing legislation that infringes upon the rights guaranteed us by our Constitution, it's important now more than ever that we read and understand it.
Too simplistic.......2002-02-24
I know this is intended to be very simple, but the commentary is just too simple. It asks questions or states facts that are nearly identical to what the actual text of the constitution reads. This would be a good book for kids, and it is still a good buy if you just want to have a hard copy of the constitution on hand. But in general, I don't think the commentary added anything to the original text.
Book Description
Until the present decade, constitutionalism in Eastern Europe was considered to be an outmoded concept of the nineteenth century. Changes in the region, however, have brought back the fundamental question of the need to restrict government power through social self-binding.
This book discusses the mechanisms of such restriction, including different forms of the separation of powers and constitutional review. It relates the theoretical and practical importance of the issue to the present world-wide discontent with majoritarian democracy and the growing disrepute of parliaments. Increasing executive efficiency is, however, a threat to fundamental rights, and the battlecry of efficiency is often only a means to new despotism and inefficiency. A careful re-evaluation of the concept of constitutionalism assists in the search for a useful balance between majoritarianism and rights, and in the avoidance of all forms of public tyranny.
Written in non-technical language and using the most important English, American, French, and German examples of constitutional history, the book also examines East European (in particular, Russian) and Latin American examples, in part to illustrate certain dead-ends in constitutional development. It is intended to be an introduction for all those concerned with liberty.
Book Description
In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich
and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first
systematic look at the implications of social choice for legal doctrine, Farber and Frickey
carefully review both the empirical and theoretical literature about interest group influence and provide a nonmathematical introduction to formal models of legislative action. Ideal for course use, this volume offers a balanced and perceptive analysis and critique of an approach which, within limits, can illuminate the dynamics of government decision-making.
“Law and Public Choice is a most valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature. It
should be of great interest to lawyers, political scientists, and all others interested in issues at the intersection of government and law.”—Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law
School
Customer Reviews:
public interest vs private interest.......2006-07-19
Law and Public Choice aims to be an introduction to economic models of rational behavior to explain the workings of political institutions in modern democracies. The book summarizes the strand of research in public and collective choice (or positive political theory, as American political scientists would rather say), that is, the fact that democracies require people to organize themselves to decide by voting how to allocate resources to public goods. Of course, the task is much more complicate than individuals have to face when to decide whether to buy cornflakes or Nasdaq stocks. Thus understood, the book leaves out the law and economics, and the comparative law and economics traditions. The book was released in 1991 and is now a little outdated and focuses too much on the American system. It is not a comprehensive text. For that the reader should consider Muller's Public Choice III or Cooter's Strategic Constitution, which are updated, comprehensive and devoted to students.
Despite its caveats, this book is well written and engaging.
Lacks Aim.......2003-07-27
This book purports to be a introduction to public choice theory as it interacts with the law. Public choice theory is a framework that analyzes the behavior of public structures under the assumption that all relevant actors try to maximize their self-interest. This book uses public choice theory to analyze (i.) interest groups, (ii.) the democratic process, (iii.) economic regulation, (iv.) statutory interpretation and (v.) public law.
While readable and engaging, Farber and Frickey's text suffers from several defects. The defects are representative of its lacking as an introductory text. First, while this book packs a lot of information into roughly 150 pages, it is not comprehensive by any stretch of the imagination. Topics in areas such as torts, and law and economics are saliently missing.
Second, this book aims to be a "critical introduction," which means that it is a biased introduction. Clear and intentional bias defeats the purpose of an introductory text, which is presumably geared towards promoting understanding rather than agenda. The authors obviously have qualms with public choice theory's widespread application in libertarian thought, and thus they try argue against mainstream public choice arguments for the textualist readings of statutes, criticism of democracy and the inefficiency of economic regulation. What irked me about this was not the criticisms per se, but the excessive straw-man-building employed by the authors. The political nature of this book is quite simply: to make the reader realize that mainstream public choice theorists' skepticism of governmental inefficiency is badly misguided, if not false.
Thus, this book lacks comprehensiveness, objectivity, and an introductory feel. With that said, however, I learned quite a bit once I got past the political posturing. Lucidly written, the book demonstrates public choice theory's flexibility in handling complicated theoretical issues in political science and law. This book might serve a better purpose as a complement to a more general introduction to public choice theory.
Book Description
Read
Chapter One.
"Unlike other theorists, these people mean to change the world, not merely to 'ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it for the better.' This book has served as my introduction to a field I wish I had started to cultivate and harvest much earlier."
—Bloomsbury Review
For well over a decade, critical race theory
the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life
has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics to ethnic studies and history.
And yet, while the critical race theory movement has spawned dozens of conferences and numerous books, no concise, accessible volume outlines its basic parameters and tenets. Here, then, from two of the founders of the movement, is the first primer on one of the most influential intellectual movements in American law and politics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword by Angela Harris xvii
I Introduction 1
A. What Is Critical Race Theory? 2
B. Early Origins 3
C. Relationship to Other Movements 4
D. Principal Figures 5
E. Spin-off Movements 6
F. Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory 6
G. How Much Racism Is There in the World? 9
H. Organization of This Book 11
Questions and Comments for Chapter I 13
Suggested Readings 14
II Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes 15
A. Interest Convergence, Material
Determinism, and Racial Realism 16
B. Revisionist History 20
C. Critique of Liberalism 21
D. Structural Determinism 25
1. Tools of Thought and the Dilemma of
Law Reform 26
2. The Empathic Fallacy 27
Classroom Exercise 29
3. Serving Two Masters 30
4. Race Remedies Law as a
Homeostatic Device 31
Questions and Comments for Chapter II 33
Suggested Readings 34
III Legal Storytelling and Narrative Analysis 37
A. Opening a Window onto Ignored or
Alternative Realities 39
B. Counterstorytelling 42
C. Cure for Silencing 43
D. Storytelling in Court 45
E. Storytelling on the Defensive 46
Questions and Comments for Chapter III 47
Suggested Readings 48
IV Looking Inward 51
A. Intersectionality 51
B. Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism 56
C. Nationalism versus Assimilation 59
Classroom Exercise 63
Questions and Comments for Chapter IV 64
Suggested Readings 65
V Power and the Shape of Knowledge 67
A. The Black-White Binary 67
B. Critical White Studies 74
Classroom Exercise 80
C. Other Developments: Latino and Asian
Critical Thought, Critical Race
Feminism, Queer-Crit Theory 81
Questions and Comments for Chapter V 84
Suggested Readings 85
VI Critiques and Responses to Criticism 87
Classroom Exercise 95
Questions and Comments for Chapter VI 97
Suggested Readings 98
VII Critical Race Theory Today 101
A. The 1990s 101
B. Capitalism on the Rampage 102
1. Unmasking Color Blindness 103
2. Race, Class, Welfare, and Poverty 107
3. Globalization 111
C. Power 113
D. Identity 120
Classroom Exercise 121
Questions and Comments for Chapter VII 123
Suggested Readings 125
VIII Conclusion 129
A. The Future 129
B. A Critical Race Agenda for the New Century 131
C. Likely Responses to Critical Race Theory 133
1. Critical Race Theory Becomes the
New Civil Rights Orthodoxy 133
2. Critical Race Theory Marginalized
and Ignored 134
3. Critical Race Theory Analyzed,but Rejected 134
4. Partial Incorporation 135
Classroom Exercise 135
Questions and Comments for Chapter VIII 137
Suggested Readings 138
Glossary of Terms 141
Index 157
About the Authors 167
Customer Reviews:
Enlightening.......2005-07-11
This is an excellent introduction to critical race theory. Well-written and supported by fascinating examples, it provides an insightful introduction to the school of thought of which Richard Delgado was one of the founders. The reviewer who found it poorly supported and insighting hate is quite misguided, for this introduction does not draw enormous conclusions but rather makes humble suggestions. It is not surprising that it made the reviewer feel uncomfortable, for nobody likes to admit to his/her racisms, which is actually one of Delgado's ideas. Racism is too loaded of a word and this society needs to develop more vocabulary to describe such emotions/feelings.
Horribly twisted and disgusting.......2005-07-09
This book not portrays every white person in America as a racist, but does so in a racist manner itself. The book cites almost no facts to prove its assertions that whites are inwardly racist because of their being white, and that radical measures such as affirmative action across the board (in jobs, schooling, housing, etc.) needs to become common practice to "overcome the disadvantages of being Black." The book claims to want to help all poor members of society, but mentions poor whites only in passing. The book does not effectively prove any of its claims, instead using obviously exaggerated and unlikely examples to make a point. This book only incited anger in me, not sympathy for the "poor Black man."
Eye-opening! A Safe and Non-Threatening Introduction.......2004-04-12
This book will change the way you view race and ethnicity in America. The authors present material and concepts that have come out of critical race theory in a readable format that is accessible to everyone. Although you may be confused about how to pin down precisely what "critical race theory" is (unfortunately, the authors don't really explain the overarching concept very well), you will be exposed to a plethora of new and radical (?) ideas that no other book or class will likely have introduced you to, such as interest convergence, which is the idea that a law will only change in favor of blacks when it is also perceived as being favorable by whites for whites. There are plenty of anecdotes, cases, and questions to keep you on your toes. This book is written in such a way so that any introductory class in history or sociology could utilize the book. I highly recommend it to professors and instructors of these courses, or to the general reader interested in race in America. Agree or disagree with them, you can't come away from the ideas in this book without thinking, and you'll never look at the legal system in the United States in quite the same way again.
Book Description
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London.
Book Description
Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon introduces non-lawyers to the workings of American constitutional law. He writes about leading constitutional doctrines and issues, including freedom of speech and religion, the guarantee of equal protection, rights to fair procedures, and rights to privacy and sexual autonomy. Fallon describes many of the fascinating cases and personalities that have shaped constitutional law, demonstrating how historical, cultural, and other factors have influenced constitutional adjudication. Furthermore, Fallon argues that the Constitution must serve as a dynamic document that adapts to the changing conditions inherent in human affairs.
Book Description
This book provides an ideal introduction for anyone wondering whether to study law or those who are simply curious to know more about it. It is not confined to English law, but deals with the Western tradition of law as a whole. It outlines the key problems of constitutional law and the law of property, contracts, treaties, crimes and torts. It also explains the importance of law of forms, procedures, and interpretation and examines how law relates to government, history, and justice. In this way it vividly brings out the intellectual and practical fascination of the subject. The book is easy to read and the chapters are self-contained. Where possible, technical terms are avoided. When unavoidable, they are explained both in the text and in a glossary at the end of the book. The author is a leading lawyer, legal historian, and legal philosopher. During his career in Oxford he taught many hundreds of students and it is from this experience that the book is drawn.
Book Description
Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.
Book Description
The fourth edition of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights covers all of the core elements of both the Constitutional and Administrative Law syllabi, making it an ideal text for use on the LLB or CPE. It also includes substantial coverage of human rights issues. Written in an engaging narrative style, the book draws heavily from the political science, historical and comparative dimensions of the subject, thus locating it more firmly in its wider context than other available texts. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre provides a fully linked online casebook to accompany the main text which contains edited versions of leading relevant cases, updated twice annually.
Books:
- Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction (4th Edition)
- Critical Race Theory 2Nd Ed Pb
- Cursor's Fury (Codex Alera)
- Customary International Humanitarian Law Boxed Set of 3 Hardback Books
- Customary International Humanitarian Law Boxed Set of 3 Hardback Books
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- Darwin on Trial
- Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing
- Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (3-Volume Set with Online Version)
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