Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
JumpStart is a new study aid series covering the first-year course areas. Each title is a short book, roughly 170 pages, that addresses a problem students experience as they navigate their first year courses. Often first year students are expected to learn substantive law by reading judicial opinions without a framework or process to help them comprehend what they are reading. The JumpStart series supplies the context and prepares students to apply the rules in a litigation context. Titles in the series can be used as a general introduction to law school or as an introduction to torts. The books are most useful early in the first semester as well as in orientation courses or as summer reading for students entering their first year of law school. The series will appeal to academic success/support coordinators as well as the course-area professors.
Synopsis
Jumpstart Constitutional Law: Reading and Understanding Constitutional Law Casesand#60;/and#62;, sheds light on the threshold issues and substantive questions common to all constitutional law cases thus bringing everything into focus for the student. Key to constructing cogent answers on a Constitutional Law exam, Jethro K. Lieberman s straightforward approach teaches students how to spot the issues and respond to the relevant questions in any constitutional law case.
Features:
- Perspective A tour of the American Constitution from a bird s-eye view. and#60;\liand#62;
- Understanding threshold issues:
- Who may decide constitutional disputes?
- Under what circumstances may a court decide a case?
Must the court take and answer a constitutional question in a property case?
- Identifying substantive issues:
- determining the scope of govenmental powers;
- federalism, and the relationship between federal and state powers; and,
- constitutional restraints that limit the exercise of governmental power.
- Interpreting the Constitution:
- using tests to determin the limits of power and the extent of rights;
- tools of analysis for interpreting the Constitution; and
- the role of precedent and change.
- Training real preparation for taking the Constitutional Law exam:
- a program for effective studying;
- sample constitutional law exam questions and answers; and
- exam-taking strategies.
Synopsis
Unlike Torts and Contracts, in which the facts are relatively consistent, cases that arise under the Constitution spring from a vast array of activities and appear to have little or no common thread.
Shedding light on the threshold issues and substantive questions common to all constitutional law cases, Jumpstart Constitutional Law: Reading and Understanding Constitutional Law Cases, brings it all into focus.
Key to constructing cogent answers on a Constitutional Law exam, Jethro K. Lieberman's straightforward approach teaches students how to spot the issues and respond to the relevant questions in any constitutional law case.
Jumpstart Constitutional Law features:
- Perspective--A tour of the American Constitution from a bird's-eye-view
- Understanding threshold issues
- Who may decide Constitutional disputes?
- Under what circumstances may a court decide a case?
- Must the court take and answer a constitutional question in a proper case?
- Identifying substantive issues
- Determining the scope of governmental powers
- Federalism, and the relationship between federal and state powers
- Constitutional restraints that limit the exercise of governmental power
- Interpreting the Constitution
- Using tests to determine the limits of power and the extent of rights
- Tools of analysis for interpreting the Constitution
- The role of precedent and change
- Get into training--real preparation for taking the Constitutional Law exam
- A program for effective studying
- Sample constitutional law exam questions and answers
- Exam-taking strategies