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Constitutional Law: Cases - Comments - Questions (American Casebook)

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I truly hate this book, it is awful. I don't think that sentence expressed my anger at this horrible book. The topics make little sense, there are no definitions. It is not clear always when a large case begins or ends. The notes are jammed together, have no discernible topic, and are way too long.

Please professors, do not assign this book!

This book is the most confusing text book I have ever attempted to read. Footnotes are separated into two categories, letters and numbers. After almost an entire semester of Con Law in law school, I still don't know why some are letters and some are numbers. Cases are broken into multiple parts and placed sporadically throughout chapters. Every law school text book I've had so far, I can pull information out of, but for some reason, not this one. If your professor is using this book and you have the option of taking it with another, do it.

If you are a professor trying to decide which casebook to use for your constitutional law class, then for the sake of your students, please keep looking. This book is almost worthless. Important cases are treated with one or two sentences and hidden in the notes, the format seems designed to make the book as frustrating to read as possible, the editing of many of the cases seems to leave out important information, and, worst of all, there is little to no explanation of anything. It's like the book's authors just copy/pasted all the landmark cases they could think of from West or Lexis, cut a little out for length (not much, though - this book is over 1600 pages long!) and then jammed it all into this soul-crushing book. If you're a student and you have a choice of professors for your con law class (and if you do, I envy you), pick the one that doesn't use this book. Constitutional law is annoying enough without having to fight a bad casebook. I'd give this zero stars if I could.

The book regrettably is not organized well and brakes the cases up in a fashion that makes them almost impossible to read at times. To truly get a good use of this book you had better have the Lexis Nexis at your finger tips. A brief at the beginning of each case would help greatly.

I ordered this on the 18th of January express, i recieved a package with the sellers information on Febuary 1, but it certainly was not the law book that i paid for, instead I recieved a child's bunny costume, my midterm is next week and I'm still waiting for my book, at this point a refund would be better. The worse part is that the seller denies ever owning a bunny costume, yet i recieved a package with the sellers address that is not even big enough to hold the law book.

Quick Shipping, some damage to the spine, but perfectly manageable. And most importantly, the product arrived as it was described.

The book is FULL of highlighting. In a 1700 page book, barely 20 pages go by without multi-colored highlighting and entire cases will be completely done. There aren't many notes in the margins, but I could ignore those more easily.

I purchased a book that had "some highlighting throughout." One of my other books also said that and it was true - there was only SOME throughout the book and it isn't so distracting. This however, was an unfair use of the phrase, or I never would have bought it. This is the kind of book that you pay next to nothing for because you don't care about serious highlighting. However, the premium I paid for a gently used book is much to high.