Constitutional Law

Book Description
Authoritative coverage analyzes the constitutional issues that are studied and litigated today. This text presents the origins of judicial review and federal jurisdiction, and the sources of national authority. Discusses federal commerce and fiscal powers. Overviews individual liberties and due process. Also covers freedom of speech and religion. Throughout the book, there are summations of the Supreme Court’s work and evaluations of the judicial process.


About the Author
Is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Previously, he was Assistant Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, practiced law in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Walter R. Mansfield of the Second Circuit of Appeals. He has also served as a visiting Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, Professor Rotunda graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and Harvard University. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a member of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examining Committee, and a former editor of the Board of Contributing Editors of the Corporation Law Review. He has also authored Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes, as well as various other books and articles on constitutional law and legal ethics.


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In this text the authors provide analysis of the constitutional issues that are most studied and litigated today. As in earlier editions of this single volume book, little attention is given to issues that are not commonly studied in law school courses on constitutional law, such as court jurisdiction, conflict of laws, and criminal procedure.Within each Chapter the reader will find subsections that differ in length and depth of treatment of particular issues, varying from summations of the Supreme Court's work to lengthy, analytical evaluations of the judicial process. The authors hope that each major section, when reviewed as a unit, will give an accurate picture of what the Court has done and an evaluation of that work in terms of accepted scholarly critiques and their own analyses.


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