Constitutional Law
This Constitutional Law Library Guide seeks to assist first-year law students in Constitutional Law at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.
Constitutional Law Library Guide
Individual Rights Collection
Black's Law Dictionary
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West Academic Study Aids
These class preparation resources below provide case briefs keyed to specific casebooks.
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High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Chemerinsky, 6th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Chemerinsky's casebook on Constitutional Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781647086022Publication Date: January 12, 2021 -
High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Feldman and Sullivan, 20th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Feldman and Sullivan's casebook on Constitutional Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781684673810Publication Date: October 16, 2019 -
High Court Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan, 8th ed.)
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This title contains well-prepared briefs for each major case in Stone’s casebook on Constitutional Law. The briefs will help readers identify, understand, and absorb the core “take away” knowledge from each case. The book includes legal analysis, providing extra tips and contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. It also includes a case vocabulary defining new or unusual legal words.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781642425888Publication Date: December 14, 2018 -
High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Choper, Dorf, Fallon, and Schauer, 14th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Choper, Dorf, Fallon, and Schauer's casebook on Constitutional Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887868387Publication Date: November 8, 2023 -
High Court Case Summaries on Constitutional Law (Keyed to Farber, Eskridge, Frickey, and Schacter, 6th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Farber, Eskridge, Frickey, and Schacter's casebook on Constitutional Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781684673780Publication Date: October 21, 2019 -
Constitutional Law Cold Call Companion, 1st .ed. by The day has arrived and your name rings out in class. This is it. The cold call. What might your professor ask? Did you understand the case? Did you miss anything important? Are you prepared? BARBRI & West Academic’s Cold Call Companion provides you with resources to critically analyze and brief a case, distill the main points of law, prepare for the kinds of questions professors may ask in class, and so much more. Included in each Cold Call Companion are: Animated case brief videos that bring the facts to life; A written case brief; Advice for prepping for class discussion; Contextual materials to offer additional color and background; Test Yourself questions; and Carefully curated sets of additional study materials to expand your knowledge of important concepts. Confidently prepare for and engage in classroom discussion, and easily navigate to the best and more relevant study aids – right when you need them! Cold Call Companion is your essential prep for class.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: August 5, 2024
Aspen Learning Library
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Casenote Legal Briefs for Constitutional Law Keyed to Levinson, Balkin, Amar, Siegel, and Rodriguez, 8th ed.
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
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Casenote Legal Briefs for Constitutional Law, Keyed to Feldman and Sullivan, 21st ed.
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886145519Publication Date: June 4, 2023 -
Casenote Legal Briefs: Constitutional Law, Keyed to Chemerinsky, 7th ed.
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889069614Publication Date: September 23, 2024 -
Casenote Legal Briefs for Constitutional Law Keyed to Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, Karlan, Huq, and Litman, 9th ed.
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543841480Publication Date: August 14, 2023
Quimbee
Please click here to find case briefs keyed to specific casebooks.
LexisNexis
Please click here for a case brief bank.
West Academic Study Aids
These study aids below are intended to provide content about constitutional law.
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Acing Constitutional Law, 2nd ed.
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This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but none offers the systematic approach to problem solving found in this book
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636591780Publication Date: November 15, 2021 -
A Short and Happy Guide to Constitutional Law, 2nd ed.
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This efficient book takes the complex subject matter of Constitutional Law and makes it easier to understand and digest. World-renowned Villanova Law Dean and Professor Mark Alexander carefully explains the key concepts involved in Con Law and also brings it home with straightforward explanations of why you are reading and discussing the cases you are assigned every day. The subject matter runs the gamut from Marbury v. Madison and the structural side of the course to Due Process and Equal Protection. In addition, he provides exam-taking tips, and general words of guidance on how to make it through law school, and beyond, to a rewarding legal career.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781642422474Publication Date: May 13, 2019 -
Quick Review of Constitutional Law, 18th ed.
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Designed to make the study of constitutional law simple, clear, and convenient, this text provides an overview of constitutional law plus a judicial review, including its limitations. Provides constitutional basis for the exercise of federal judicial power, national legislative power, sources and limitations of congressional power, and the separation of powers. Explores the relationship between branches of federal government, state power to regulate commerce, and constitutional limitations. Examines civil rights, retroactive legislation, procedural and substantive due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech and religion. Also addresses cruel and unusual punishment.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314289759Publication Date: October 14, 2013 -
Constitutional Law in a Nutshell, 11th ed.
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This 11th edition of Constitutional Law in a Nutshell summarizes constitutional law from Marbury v. Madison (1803), to the present. The goal has been to discuss the Supreme Court's cases in enough detail to be helpful but not to be verbose in doing so. This edition includes over thirty new cases. Among the decisions featured in this edition are two highly controversial departures from the Court’s precedents. One such case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), discussed in Chapter 5, where the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833 (1992). The Court held in Dobbs that no right to abortion is implicit in any provision of the Constitution including the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, dissented and protested that Roe and Casey had “protected the liberty and equality of women” for half a century.
Another controversial decision where the Court departed from precedent was Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina, 143 S. Ct. 2141 (2023), discussed in Chapter 6. The SFFA cases sought to terminate affirmative action in higher education. Chief Justice Roberts held for the Court that the admissions systems used by the two institutions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The multiple interests advanced by the universities to justify their race-based programs were not sufficiently measurable to be susceptible to judicial review. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented and objected that the majority decision entrenched “racial inequality in education.”
In this edition as in past editions, where there is a particularly sharp division among the Justices, the position of the dissenters is briefly described. In this edition as in previous ones, discussion of the cases is concise yet sufficiently ample to be meaningful.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887865300Publication Date: April 29, 2024 -
Constitutional Analysis in a Nutshell, 4th ed.
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This authoritative text provides a framework for understanding individual liberty and governmental power and the institutional role played by the Supreme Court of the United States. The comprehensive coverage in this new and improved edition includes all the major topics: judicial review; commerce clause and state powers; federalism; separation of powers; congressional and executive powers; and individual civil rights and civil liberties. It includes diagrams that aid understanding of the fundamentals of our system of government. A chapter samples all the academic literature on the subject in condensed form. An appendix summarizes the case law found in all the casebooks in a straightforward manner to provide an overview and to aid in review for the final examination. Extremely accessible and comprehensive — this is a paperback course in American Constitutional Law — your own personal tutor.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887860701Publication Date: January 8, 2025 -
Florida Constitutional Law in a Nutshell, 1st ed.
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Florida Constitution. After briefly describing the constitution’s history (chapter 1), it organizes the constitution’s numerous subjects into five discrete units: sovereignty (chapters 2-4); citizens’ rights (chapters 5-12); government operations (chapters 13-19); public finances (chapters 20-22); and constitutional amendments (chapters 23-24). Specific sections of the constitution can be accessed quickly using the book’s finding table. The text includes more than 1,000 case citations; extensive references to primary and secondary sources; and a select bibliography.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781628102161Publication Date: March 26, 2020
LexisNexis Digital Library
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Understanding Constitutional Law, 5th ed.
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Understanding Constitutional Law is a succinct but comprehensive treatment of constitutional law topics typically encountered in a first-year constitutional law class. The book provides the current black letter law doctrines alongside the historical background needed to understand them and the major lines of dissenting thought. It explains the methodological approaches the Court has taken to the topics it covers and is interspersed with commentary to help readers understand both those approaches and the rules they generate. Thus, the book is ideal for both students beginning their education in constitutional law and those seeking a deeper understanding. It's also suitable for practitioners seeking a sourcebook to help them analyze the constitutional law issues confronting them.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531018719Publication Date: December 11, 2020 -
Mastering Constitutional Law, 2nd ed.
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This book covers the essential elements of constitutional law in a condensed framework. This book's concise, up-to-date, user-friendly approach is refreshing. Whether students are studying for constitutional law exams or the bar exam, this book offers a highly readable yet thorough coverage of the subject. Each chapter begins with a simple roadmap alerting the reader to the direction of the chapter. The chapter naturally unfolds according to that plan and then ends with a list of checkpoints that summarize the chapter in pithy phrases. The book ends with a complete outline for constitutional law, a great study aid.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781611638042Publication Date: May 25, 2016 -
Understanding the First Amendment, 8th ed.
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The overarching objective of Understanding the First Amendment is to facilitate student learning efficiency and academic success. Toward this end, it focuses upon core subject matter that is likely to be tested in a law school examination or on the bar examination. The book also provides tools that enable students to organize the course and their understanding in a way that enhances retention. The beginning of each chapter highlights key points of coverage. The end of each chapter indicates essential points to remember. The book strikes a balance between comprehensiveness and selectivity, thus providing students with assurance that they know enough, know it well, but are not overwhelmed by details that are unduly esoteric or irrelevant to their performance needs.
The eighth edition covers all of the recent relevant decisions, including Houston Community College System v. Wilson, Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, Federal Election Commission v. Cruz, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., Shurtleff v. City of Boston, Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrisey-Berru, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and Carson v. Makin. It also includes a variety of new problems involving new situations that have arisen in First Amendment law.
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Mastering First Amendment Law
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Mastering First Amendment Law offers students an opportunity to learn the essential elements of First Amendment law in a condensed framework. At a time when First Amendment study books are detailed, long and full of footnotes, this book's concise, up-to-date, user-friendly approach is refreshing. Whether students are studying for con law exams or the bar exam, Mastering First Amendment Law offers an outline which is easy to use. Each chapter begins with a simple roadmap alerting the reader to the direction of the chapter. The chapter naturally unfolds according to that plan and then ends with a list of checkpoints which summarize the law in pithy phrases. There are no footnotes, see also's, bibliographies, etc. because Mastering First Amendment Law is a condensed yet complete outline of constitutional law.
Mastering First Amendment Law starts by giving the reader the theory and methodology to analyze and understand First Amendment law. It then addresses various types of speech such as advocacy of illegal action, fighting words, hostile audiences, threats, hate speech, obscenity, child pornography, defamation, invasion of privacy, disclosure of confidential information and commercial speech. These topics lead to the question of where does free speech protections apply and the development of public, limited and nonpublic forums as well as private property and restricted environments such as schools, prisons and the military.
Mastering First Amendment Law then addresses freedom of the press, including broadcast regulation and advancing technology and freedom of association, including the in electoral process. Finally Mastering First Amendment Law examines freedom of religion from both the establishment clause perspective and the free exercise perspective. The former includes government support for religious beliefs and financial aid to religious institutions, and the latter includes law discriminating against religion and neutral laws adversely affecting religion.
Mastering First Amendment Law helps students learn the concepts, doctrines, and analytical tools that underlie first amendment law. Over the past 70 years, First Amendment law has grown exponentially sometimes leaving casebook authors and students feeling overwhelmed by the number and nuances of decisions. The author of Mastering First Amendment Law selected only the most important decisions for this book in order to give students the essential knowledge needed to master First Amendment law.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531011536Publication Date: September 14, 2018
Aspen Learning Library
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Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, 10th ed.
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Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, 10th edition, by Allan Ides, Christopher N. May, and Simona Grossi, provides a clearly written, comprehensive examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to individual rights. This problem-oriented study guide provides students and teachers with a highly readable and accessible study of constitutional law. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. The text operates as a readable and citable treatise on the topics covered, and the examples and explanations serve as an elaboration on that text. Its unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy combines clear textual material with well-written, comprehensive and up-to-date examples, explanations, and questions. A favorite among law school students, and often recommended by professors, this guide takes students through the principal doctrines of constitutional law covered in a typical course that includes a study of individual rights.
New to the Tenth Edition:
Inclusion of nearly 50 new Supreme Court cases, and more than 30 state and lower federal court decisions
Nearly 200 Examples & Explanations, many of them new and updated
Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. (2022), overruling Roe v. Wade (1973), and leaving any protection of a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy up to the states
Discussion of how state courts, applying state constitutions, have responded to the Court’s invitation in Dobbs
Consideration of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College (2023) and the Court’s new, less deferential approach to race-based college admissions programs
Expanded treatment of race-based legislative districting plans, including Alexander v. S.C. State Conf. of the NAACP (2024)
Discussion of freedom of speech in the social media setting, as exemplified in recent decision in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC (2024)
Exploration of the current Court’s approach to resolving Establishment Clause claims, as set forth in Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist. (2022)
Updated treatment of the right to keep and bear arms, as seen in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen (2022) and United States v. Rahimi (2024)
Professors and students will benefit from:
Hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis
An alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures
Straightforward, informal text that is never simplistic, and quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor
Adaptability with all major Constitutional Law casebooks
Authors with over 75 years of combined experience teaching Constitutional Law.
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Examples and Explanations for First Amendment
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Award-winning teacher and respected author of several volumes, Professor Laura Little has written a new book on the First Amendment. Following the proven Examples and Explanations format, the book covers all of the amendment’s major topics – with emphasis on speech and religion. Professor Little presents hypothetical examples that range from simple and straightforward to complex and rich. As a result, students using the book can acquire both basic and advanced knowledge of First Amendment doctrine. Equally important, this approach allows students the opportunity to practice their skill of marshalling arguments on many sides of contested legal issues.
With its short chapters, the book is an exceptionally useful complement to any of the available casebooks in the field.
Highlights of this E&E study aid (first edition):
Professor Little brings her characteristically clear writing style and constitutional law expertise to the subject.
The book’s organization enables students to choose the particular topics they need to study and that match the coverage of their course.
The topics covered include a comprehensive review of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on speech, association, and religion as well as cutting edge issues raised by current events, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
The concise explication of legal doctrine (and its uncertainties) ensure a baseline of student understanding and maximizes accessibility to difficult, abstract concepts.
The book’s balance between simple and complex hypotheticals serves an array of student needs.
While providing deep coverage of abstract concepts, the book includes many practical introductions to law practice reality. Professor Little has not only established her reputation as a constitutional scholar, but also comes to the subject with experience as a practicing First Amendment lawyer for the media.
Professors and students will benefit from:
Adaptable organization allows the book to complement any casebook.
Figures, examples, explanations, and varying difficulty in the presented material ensure that the book will serve the needs of a variety of users and will appeal to different learning styles.
Balance between theoretical and practical materials enables broad understanding.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543822298Publication Date: March 9, 2021 -
Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law, 3rd ed.
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Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions.
Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application.
The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom:
It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work.
Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick.
The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties offers a powerful combination of well-written explanations, multiple-choice questions, and analyses. Brannon P. Denning presents a clear and thoughtful overview of the constitutional doctrines that govern the structure and powers granted in the U.S. Constitution, as well as those that protect individual rights and liberties. Accessible and interactive, the Glannon Guide series pedagogy teaches you to effectively answer exam questions as you review course content.
New to the Third Edition:
Combined the government structure and powers volume with the rights and liberties volume into one convenient, economical, and easy-to-use aid
Updated with recent Supreme Court cases and related questions
New flowcharts and tables visually illustrate and clarify complex areas of doctrine
New Closing Closers
Professors and students will benefit from:
Multiple choice questions at varying levels of difficulty, along with detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers that all students can use to self-test within each chapter
Clear, easy-to-understand descriptions of constitutional doctrine, including summaries of all major U.S. Supreme Court cases
Two sets of Closing Closers that allow for review following completion of the structure and powers and rights and liberties parts.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543806984Publication Date: February 7, 2019 -
Emanuel CrunchTime for Constitutional Law
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When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test.
Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams:
Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam.
Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester
Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886140675Publication Date: May 8, 2023
Hornbooks
Hornbooks below provide an overview of constitutional law.
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Constitutional Law, 8th ed.
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This treatise provides a detailed, up-to-date, and comprehensive analysis of American constitutional law. It examines the issues that are studied and litigated today and discusses the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, the sources of national authority, the growth of federal commerce and fiscal powers, and the limits on state laws that burden interstate commerce. It analyzes individual liberties and due process, including freedom of speech and religion, federal powers to enforce the Bill of Rights, and limitations on the jurisdiction of federal courts. Finally, it examines the separation of powers, including the restrictions on the foreign affairs power.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314195999Publication Date: November 5, 2009 -
United States Constitutional Law, 2d ed.
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United States Constitutional Law guides law students, political science students, and engaged citizens through the complexities of U.S. Supreme Court doctrine—and its relationship to constitutional politics—in key areas ranging from federalism and presidential power to equal protection and substantive due process. Rather than approach constitutional law as a static structure or imagine the Supreme Court as acting in isolation from society, the book elaborates and clarifies key constitutional doctrines while also drawing on scholarship in law and political science that relates the doctrines to large social changes such as industrialization, social movements such as civil rights and second-wave feminism, and institutional tensions between governmental actors. Combining legal analysis with historical narrative and sensitivity to political context, the book provides deeper understanding of how constitutional law arises, functions, and changes in a complex, often-divided society. This second edition documents the profound changes in judge-made constitutional law that have occurred in the five years since the first edition was published.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887866468Publication Date: February 27, 2024 -
Principles of Constitutional Law, 5th ed.
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The authors, recognized authorities for over a third of a century, provide succinct and authoritative coverage of the major principles in modern American constitutional law. This book is a shortened version based on the authors' hornbook (popular with students) and their six-volume treatise (popular with judges, practitioners, and scholars). It analyzes the constitutional issues studied today, and discusses the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, federal commerce and spending powers, state powers in light of the dormant Commerce Clause, the war power, freedom of speech and religion, equal protection, due process, and other important individual rights and liberties. This book is completely up to date and includes all major Supreme Court cases through February, 2016, including the ground breaking First Amendment decisions of the Roberts' Court.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781628101195Publication Date: June 3, 2016
Treatises
Treatises below provides an exposition of Constitutional Law.
LexisNexis: Constitutional Law Treatises, Guides, and Jurisprudence
Please click here for Constitutional Law Treatises, Guides, and Jurisprudence on LexisNexis.
Westlaw: Constitutional Law Deskbook
Please click here for a Constitutional Law Deskbook on Westlaw.
Aspen Treatise for Constitutional Law
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Aspen Treatise for Constitutional Law, 7th ed.
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Relied on by students, professors, and practitioners, Erwin Chemerinsky’s popular treatise clearly states the law and identifies the underlying policy issues in each area of constitutional law. Thorough coverage of the topic makes it appropriate for both beginning and advanced courses.
New to the 7th Edition:
Discussion of many new cases, including:
Allen v. Cooper;
American Legion v. American Humanist Association.;
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta;
California v. Texas;
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak;
Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez;
Carr v. Saul;
Carson v. Makin;
Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid;
Central Virginia Community College v. Katz;
City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising;
Collins v. Yellen;
Davis v. Bandemer;
Dept. of Commerce v. New York;
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization;
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue;
Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt;
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia;
Gundy v. U.S.;
June Medical Services LLC v. Russo;
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District;
Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania;
Lamone v. Benisek;
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.;
Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck;
Merrill v. Milligan;
New York Rifle and Pistol Association. v. Bruen;
New York State Rifle and Pistol Association., Inc. v. City of New York, NY;
Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru;
PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey;
Ramos v. Louisiana;
Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee;
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo;
Rucho v. Common Cause;
Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;
Siegel v. Fitzgerald;
Shurtleff v. City of Boston;
South Bay Pentecostal Church v. Newsom;
Tandon v. Newsom;
Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association. v. Thomas;
Timbs v. Indiana;
Torres v. Texas Dept. of Public Safety;
TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez;
Trump v. Hawaii;
Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP;
Trump v. Vance;
U.S. v. Arthrex, Inc.;
U.S. v. Sanchez-Gomez;
U.S. v. Washington;
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski;
Veith v. Jubelirer;
West Virginia v. EPA; and
Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson
Benefits for instructors and students:
Renowned authorship
Examination of black-letter law and all the myriad issues of constitutional interpretation with unrivaled thoroughness and lucidity
Excellent historical overview of the creation and ratification of constitution, examining the existential question of why we have a constitution.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543857603Publication Date: February 15, 2023
CALI Lessons on Constitutional Law
The CALI Constitutional Law Outline allows you to search for terms of art that correspond to topics you are studying to find suggestions for related CALI Lessons. The CALI Constitutional Law Index lists CALI Lessons about Constitutional Law.
Outlining Supplements from West Academic Study Aids
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Black Letter Outline on Constitutional Law, 11th ed.
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Barron, Dienes, and Jefferson's Black Letter Outline on Constitutional Law, 11th helps law students succeed in class and on exams. This Black Letter Outline provides an accessible framework for recognizing and understanding the essential principles and issues covered in Constitutional Law courses. The book is a comprehensive study aid for use both when preparing for classes and when reviewing for exams. The authors, experts in the subject matter, provide students a much-needed guide for navigating, organizing, and assessing their own learning.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887862798Publication Date: November 2, 2023 -
Gilbert Law Summaries on Constitutional Law, 31st ed.
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The topics discussed in this law student study outline are the powers of federal government, including judicial power, powers of Congress, presidential power, foreign affairs power, and intergovernmental immunities. Also included are separation of powers, regulation of foreign commerce, and regulation of interstate commerce. It also covers taxation of interstate and foreign commerce, due process, equal protection, "state action" requirements, freedoms of speech, press, and association, and freedom of religion.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314276179Publication Date: May 2, 2013
Outlining Supplements from Aspen Learning Library
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Emanuel Law Outlines for Constitutional Law, 41st ed.
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Emanuel® Law Outlines for Constitutional Law, Forty-First Edition, by Steve Emanuel focuses on those topics that are important in today’s Constitutional Law courses and includes an abundance of short-answer questions and answers as well as exam tips.
New to the Forty-First Edition:
Coverage of key 2022-2023 Supreme Court developments, including:
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, holding that universities may no longer take race into account in making admissions decisions and thus nullifying traditional affirmative action in admissions.
Biden v. Nebraska, a separation-of-powers decision holding that the Biden administration’s cancellation of up to $400 billion of student loan debt was invalid under the “major question” doctrine. Under that doctrine, a federal agency may act on a major question of economic or political significance only if there is “clear direction” from Congress allowing that action.
Nat’l Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a decision reaffirming that even where a state law was not enacted with an intent to discriminate against interstate commerce, the Court will still perform a rough balancing test, under which it will find a dormant Commerce Clause violation if the burden imposed on commerce is clearly excessive compared with the local benefits.
Counterman v. Colorado, a free-speech case reaffirming that threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment but holding that to treat the making of such a threat as a crime, the prosecution must prove that the speaker acted “recklessly,” i.e., that the speaker “consciously disregarded” a substantial risk that the speech would cause harm to another.
Moore v. Harper, a decision about the meaning of the “Elections Clause,” which gives each state legislature the power to determine the “times, places and manner” of congressional elections. The Court rejected the “independent state legislature” theory, which contended that a state legislature’s power to regulate federal elections was absolute.
The Capsule Summary provides a quick reference summary of the key concepts covered in the full Outline.
The detailed course Outline with black letter principles supplements your casebook reading throughout the semester and gives structure to your own outline.
The Quiz Yourself feature includes a series of short-answer questions and sample answers to help you test your knowledge of the chapter’s content.
Exam Tips alert you to issues and commonly used fact patterns found on exams.
The Casebook Correlation Chart correlates each section in the Outline with the pages covering that topic in the major casebooks.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889068778Publication Date: May 12, 2024
Outlining Supplement from Quimbee
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Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from LexisNexis Digital Library
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Questions and Answers: Constitutional Law, 2nd ed.
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Understand better what you're learning in Constitutional Law class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 40 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam."
For each multiple-choice question, Professors McGreal and Eads provide a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professors McGreal and Eads provide a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
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Questions and Answers: the First Amendment, 4th ed.
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Understand better what you're learning in First Amendment or Constitutional Law class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes over 150 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." The fourth edition has been updated with recent freedom of expression and religion cases.
For each multiple-choice question, Professors Weaver and Araiza provide a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professors Weaver and Araiza provide a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531022891Publication Date: June 15, 2022
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from Aspen Learning Library
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Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method, 6th ed.
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Strategies & Tactics for the FINZ Multistate Method, Sixth Edition, is an indispensable tool for both law school exams and the Multistate Bar Exam. It features more than 1200 multiple-choice questions and detailed answers unavailable elsewhere.
New to the Sixth Edition:
16 new questions in Civil Procedure
19 new questions in Constitutional Law
18 new questions each in Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence, and Property
17 new questions in Torts
16 new questions in the Practice Exam
Students will benefit from:
More than 1200 multiple-choice questions and answers: Each question contains a sophisticated and intricate fact pattern that tests your ability to pull out the essential facts and tie them to the rules and theories you’ve learned in class. The answers not only explain the reasoning behind the correct choice, but also why the other choices are incorrect.
Coverage of first-year subjects: Questions and detailed answers for each first-year course—Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law (including Criminal Procedure), Property (including Future Interests), and Torts—as well as the upper-year subject of Evidence.
Supplemental questions for your bar review: Every question is written in the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) style for school exams or MBE preparation and complies with the latest MBE formats. If you’re taking a bar review course, you still need Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method because our questions are written in the MBE style and format, but are not actual released exam questions, so we guarantee you’ve never seen these questions before in your MBE review materials.
Special section on how to handle MBE-style questions: The book includes an In-depth guide, “Strategies & Tactics—Playing the MBE Game to Win,” on handling the MBE and MBE-style multiple-choice questions—how to break the question down to the essential facts, how to recognize the legal issues, how to avoid the examiners’ traps and pitfalls, and how to pick the right answer and avoid being misled by the wrong answers.
Complete MBE-style practice exam: The book comes with a complete 200-question practice exam, with detailed answers that explain the reasoning behind the correct choice and why each of the other choices is incorrect.
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Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law, 3rd ed.
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Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions.
Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application.
The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom:
It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work.
Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick.
The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties offers a powerful combination of well-written explanations, multiple-choice questions, and analyses. Brannon P. Denning presents a clear and thoughtful overview of the constitutional doctrines that govern the structure and powers granted in the U.S. Constitution, as well as those that protect individual rights and liberties. Accessible and interactive, the Glannon Guide series pedagogy teaches you to effectively answer exam questions as you review course content.
New to the Third Edition:
Combined the government structure and powers volume with the rights and liberties volume into one convenient, economical, and easy-to-use aid
Updated with recent Supreme Court cases and related questions
New flowcharts and tables visually illustrate and clarify complex areas of doctrine
New Closing Closers
Professors and students will benefit from:
Multiple choice questions at varying levels of difficulty, along with detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answers that all students can use to self-test within each chapter
Clear, easy-to-understand descriptions of constitutional doctrine, including summaries of all major U.S. Supreme Court cases
Two sets of Closing Closers that allow for review following completion of the structure and powers and rights and liberties parts
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543806984Publication Date: February 7, 2019
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Emanuel CrunchTime for Constitutional Law
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When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test.
Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams:
Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam.
Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester
Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886140675Publication Date: May 8, 2023
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from Quimbee
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Essay Questions and Answers from West Academic Study Aids
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Gilbert Law Summaries on Constitutional Law, 31st ed.
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The topics discussed in this law student study outline are the powers of federal government, including judicial power, powers of Congress, presidential power, foreign affairs power, and intergovernmental immunities. Also included are separation of powers, regulation of foreign commerce, and regulation of interstate commerce. It also covers taxation of interstate and foreign commerce, due process, equal protection, "state action" requirements, freedoms of speech, press, and association, and freedom of religion.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314276179Publication Date: May 2, 2013
Short-Answer Essay Questions and Answers from West Academic Study Aids
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Acing Constitutional Law, 2nd ed.
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This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but none offers the systematic approach to problem solving found in this book.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636591780Publication Date: November 15, 2021
Short-Answer Essay Questions and Answers from Aspen Learning Library
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Emanuel CrunchTime for Constitutional Law
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When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test.
Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams:
Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam.
Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester
Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886140675Publication Date: May 8, 2023
Essay Questions and Issue Spotting Content from Quimbee
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Video Resources
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Audio Resources
West Academic Study Aids
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Law School Legends Audio on Constitutional Law by This audio lecture covers topics such as Marbury v. Madison and judicial review, the Commerce Clause and federal legislative power, the rise and fall and rise of substantive due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment, including freedom of speech and the press, the free exercise of religion, and the establishment of religion.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: May 1, 2005
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Sum and Substance Audio on Constitutional Law, 12th ed. by Sum & Substance Audio Series allows you to assimilate the essentials of the course at your convenience – listen while working, commuting, exercising or just relaxing. The information and ideas you struggled with previously are now brought to life simply and succinctly. The Audio provides Quick Reference Indexing, allowing you to quickly locate every topic in the entire recording. Also provided are exam tips to maximize your performance and Lifetime guarantee. These Audios are time saving, convenient and effective.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: September 25, 2024
LexisNexis Digital Library
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Understanding Constitutional Law, 5th ed. by Understanding Constitutional Law is a succinct but comprehensive treatment of constitutional law topics typically encountered in a first-year constitutional law class. The book provides the current black letter law doctrines alongside the historical background needed to understand them and the major lines of dissenting thought. It explains the methodological approaches the Court has taken to the topics it covers and is interspersed with commentary to help readers understand both those approaches and the rules they generate. Thus, the book is ideal for both students beginning their education in constitutional law and those seeking a deeper understanding. It's also suitable for practitioners seeking a sourcebook to help them analyze the constitutional law issues confronting them.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: May 9, 2022
Aspen Learning Library
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Aspen Aloud: Constitutional Law
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Aspen Aloud is a series of narrated audio summaries for legal studies in 1L or 2L subject areas: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporations and Other Business Entities, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Property, and Torts. Consisting of easy-to-follow, non-casebook-specific chapters broken up into audio files of approximately 10 to 30 minutes each, Aspen Aloud covers the main topics of a subject area to help students understand the concepts they learn in class throughout the semester and to study for exams on the go.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889067474Publication Date: August 7, 2023
