Customer Reviews

Coastal and Ocean Law: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

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This was a required text for my doctoral program. The book itself is full of good information, but light on the analysis of the cases. You need to have a good instructor to help with the analysis and discussion of the cases and their importance to the law. Majority of the book is case decisions.

The book itself is extremely expensive. I sold mine back to Amazon, but if this is for a course ask your friends and other students to lend a copy for the course. You likely will never need this information again unless you specifically get into law.. and if you do you can always obtain the case records free from the library.

This book is full of subtle typos (an extra "not" can really confuse the reader) and omitted sentence fragments, which render whole paragraphs incomprehensible. Not only that, it does not give you a clear idea of where the law currently stands on anything. I suppose it does make for an interesting historical read, as much of the information presented is outdated.
I ordered the Nutshell today, and am hoping it will give me some structure.
If you have to use this book, start looking around for a study guide early on.

This book is not entirely accurate in parts and not well written. I suggest "Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy" it's an ABA book written by the leaders in this field, it's very well written and has everything one would want to know plus is cited well so you can easily find additional information.

This is a rare instance where you're better off just buying the Nutshell. The full casebook is mostly filler: page after page of statutes. There's very little helpful commentary or analysis. You can get pretty much the same material in the Nutshell for a lot less money.