Constitutional Rights: Cases in Context (Aspen Casebook)

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Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book practice questions from your favorite study aids and an outline tool on CasebookConnect the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes portability meaningful feedback and greater efficiency. Constitutional Rights: Cases in Context Second Edition places primary emphasis on how constitutional law has developed since the Founding its key foundational principles and recurring debates. By providing both cases and context it conveys the competing narratives that all lawyers ought to know and all constitutional practitioners need to know. Teachable manageable class-sized chunks of material are suited to one-semester courses or reduced credit configurations. Generous case excerpts make the text flexible for most courses. Cases are judiciously supplemented with background readings from various sources. Innovative study guide questions presented before each case help students focus on the salient issues challenging them to consider the courts opinions from various perspectives and suggesting comparisons or connections with other cases. Key Benefits: Revised doctrinal areas with newer cases. Updated background contextual material to reflect current scholarship. A highly accessible and engaging structure that examines the competing narratives that pervade the development of American constitutional law since the founding. Related cases are grouped together into assignments and make for a reasonable amount of reading for each topic. A wealth of photographs maps and primary documents to bring the cases to life. CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading so access your enhanced e-book anytime anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight take notes in the margins and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples & Explanations Emanuel Law Outlines Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.