Constitutional Law, Concise Edition 13th » (13rd Edition)

The thirteenth edition continues to provide a comprehensive overview of constitutional law, focusing closely on Supreme Court decisions. Key new principal cases or case summaries — running the gamut from separation of powers and due process issues generated by the War on Terror, to questions of special standing of states to sue on behalf of their citizens in the fight against global warming, to abortion rights, school integration, voter registration, limits on punitive damages, eminent domain powers, speech in schools, campaign finance regulation, the role of religion in public life, and the entirely new doctrine of individual gun ownership rights outside of militia service — include: Massachusetts v Environmental Protection Agency
Gonzales v. Raich
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Medellin v. Texas
Boumediene v. Bush
Philip Morris USA v. Williams
Kelo v. New London
Gonzales v. Carhart
District of Columbia v. Heller
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
Morse v. Frederick
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life
Davis v. Federal Election Commission
McCreary County, Kentucky v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
Van Orden v. Perry Cutter v. Wilkinson

These and other cases, along with enhanced discussion materials cutting across constitutional doctrines, give maximum flexibility to instructors to tailor their courses as they see fit, while providing students with a breadth and depth of raw materials from which they can learn to synthesize and analyze, both in the classroom and on their own.