Constitutional Law (Emanuel Law Outlines) [Paperback]

Steven L. Emanuel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 730 pages
• Publisher: Panel Pub; 19th edition (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735527318
• ISBN-13: 978-0735527317
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,846,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, thorough, accurate, May 8, 2002

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Ben R. (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Constitutional Law (Emanuel Law Outlines) (Paperback)

I bought the Emanuel for property and liked it so much I got this one and the one for substantive criminal law. While I didn't use the crim law one so much (terrific prof), this was absolutely indispensable. We had so much reading in that class that there was no way I could have (a) understood it all on my own or (b) had time to read Tribe or any other hornbook, helpful as they may be.

As with all the Emanuels, this one is organized very well, packing a lot of info in and still making it readable. I recommend periodically surveying the summarized outline at the beginning; then look up your assigned cases in the index and read enough to give you a feel for the issues before you read the cases. Unless your prof is going for breadth and not depth, you won't get through half of this bad boy, but what you do cover will be in here.

Best of all, this supp is very accurate. I regularly brought it to class to refer to, and I thought I had stolen my prof's lecture notes. It clarifies ambiguous doctrines, while appropriately throwing up its hands when commenting on the Court's stance would be guesswork.

I hear all sorts of great things about Tribe, but this was the bomb for me, a lot cheaper and more versatile.