Casenote Legal Briefs: Constitutional Law, Keyed To Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, & Karlan, Seventh Edition

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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. The series is trusted for its expert summary of the principal cases in your casebook. Its proven reliability makes Casenote Legal Briefs the most popular case brief series available. With more than 100 titles keyed to the current editions of major casebooks, you know you can find the help you need. The brief for each case saves you time and helps you retain important issues. Each brief has a succinct statement of the rule of law/black letter law, description of the facts, and important points of the holding and decision. Quicknotes are short definitions of the legal terms used at the end of each brief. Use the Glossary in the end of your text to define common Latin legal terms. Such an overview, combined with case analysis, helps broaden your understanding and supports you in classroom discussion. Each title is keyed to the current edition of a specific casebook; it s your trusted guide to the text throughout the semester.The brief for each principal case in the casebook saves you time and helps you retain important issues. Each brief has a succinct statement of the rule of law/black letter law, description of the facts, important points of the holding and decision, and concurrences and dissents included in the casebook excerpt. This overview is combined with a short analysis: all to help you broaden your understanding and support you in classroom discussion. Quicknotes at end of each brief give you short definitions of the legal terms used. A handy Glossary of common Latin words and phrases is included in every Casenote. Detailed instruction on how to brief a case is provided for you. A free Quick Course Outline accompanies all Casenote Legal Briefs in these course areas: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Property, and Torts.

Series: Casenote Legal Briefs

Paperback: 194 pages

Publisher: Aspen Publishers; 7 edition (May 30, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1454819871

ISBN-13: 978-1454819875

Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches

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Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Buy this book only if you are truly desperate and skipped all your reading assignments. Wait, change that -- don't buy it even then. There are better case summaries on Lexis, West, Wikipedia, and elsewhere. This book, and the whole series, is just an easy-money scheme. The laziness of the editors is exceeded only by their greed. Very sloppy summaries of holdings, facts, and almost zero coverage of procedural issues. Furthermore, the book is riddled with typos. I used this as a companion to my own reading of the cases, but found so many factual errors that I could no longer trust it.

The facts are summarized reasonably well. Apart from that, the rules and holdings are just butchered most of the time. A case might be relevant for one particular reason, which is laid out in the casebook, but the brief highlights a very narrow, and generally irrelevant, reasoning/rule that makes the brief essentially useless. Baker v. Carr is primarily about the justiciability of political questions, but the case brief highlights the justiciability of apportionment, which is really only a minor concern. Are the briefs written by lawyers or idiots?

Casenotes always are a must for me, especially in a class like ConLaw where some of the cases are dense. This helps cut it down for you so you can remember which part of the Constitution you are meant to be focusing on for that case.

The actual publishing date on this book - according to the book I have in front of me - is 2010. This may not be the best book to summarize the law -- but it is a very good book to help you when you didn't have time to read for class and you know the professor is going to call on you. It pretty much hits all of the highlights of the cases. Use an commercial outline for preparing for exams.

I love these canned briefs because they not only simplify the case, but they provide some historical analysis, background and other important insight that is very relevant to Constitutional Law.

OK, some errors, High Court Case Summary MUCH better.

A great book for short case summaries!

Very helpful!

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