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Constitutional Law: Cases, Comments and Questions, Ninth Edition (American Casebooks)

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This is definitely the worst casebook I have come across so far. It weighs a ton too. You absolutely need to buy a supplement if you want to understand anything. A huge amount of space is devoted to notes and comments most of which are meaningless and incomprehensible to most 1Ls. As someone already said, if you can avoid this book, you're lucky.

We used this book for two semesters of Constitutional Law at law school. Even so we covered less than half of it. It is not easy reading but when used with other study aids or Lexis the cases become more clear.

If you are looking at this for law school purposes you probably don't have a choice. For those of you who are non students just looking for a book on constitutional law I would not recommend it. It is just too dense. Guess that is why it is used in a teaching environment.

I too have used this book for two semesters of Con Law. In my opinion it is the absolute worst casebook I have ever had to use.

The comments after the cases do nothing to clarify anything and frankly as a 1L you will be too busy reading for all your other classes you won't have time to read the 50 pages of comments after every case anyway.

If you have to use this casebook, you'd better hope that you get a good professor or at least get Gilberts/Emanuel!

Yes, the text is pretty dense and makes for a slow read, but the the detailed index and sheer volume of cases makes this a valuable resource. No, it's not ideal for a soak in the tub or as a coffee table volume, but useful nonetheless.

The textbook is extremely difficuilt to read. The exceptions from the articles which are supposed to help in the understanding of the case complicate issue even more. You have to supplement reading of this book with hornbook or Emanuel/Gilbert. If you can avoid this book feel yourself lucky