Customer Reviews

The Jurisprudence of United States Constitutional Interpretation: An Annotated Bibliography

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The American Association of Law Libraries has awarded the 2001 "Joseph L Andrews Bibliographic Award" for significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature, measured primarily by its creative and evaluative elements and the extent to which judgement was a factor in its formulation, to Shelley L. Dowling and Mary Custy for, "The Jurisprudence of United States Constitutional Interpretation" (1999).

With 850 citations, many of them with descriptive annotations, this reference work should be useful for university libraries and for advanced researchers on the Constitution. At the same time, the short descriptions are not always reliable. Many are evidently written by a person not conversant with the subject; some focus on a minor aspect of the works described. This book cites materials in a variety of genres, including primary as well as secondary sources, and electronic as well as print formats. While usefully touching on many genres and formats, it cannot be comprehensive since it cites only about 850 titles. This is more than enough to give the researcher a good start in the massive and variegated literature on the Constitution, but the book is not as comprehensive or as authoritative as it aims to be.