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An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know Paperback – 3 September 2019
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This multimedia platform combines a book and video series that will change the way you study constitutional law. An Introduction to Constitutional Law teaches the narrative of constitutional law as it has developed over the past two centuries. All students even those unfamiliar with American history will learn the essential background information to grasp how this body of law has come to be what it is today. An online library of sixty-three videos (access codes provided with purchase of the book) brings the Supreme Court s one hundred most important decisions to life. These videos are enriched by photographs, maps, and even audio from the Supreme Court. The book and videos are accessible for all levels: law school, college, high school, home school, and independent study. Students can read and watch these materials before class to prepare for lectures or study after class to fill in any gaps in their notes. And, come exam time, students can watch the entire canon of constitutional law in about twelve hours.
- ISBN-101543813909
- ISBN-13978-1543813906
- PublisherWolters Kluwer
- Publication date3 September 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions17.78 x 1.91 x 24.77 cm
- Print length400 pages
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Randy Barnett and Josh Blackman have created a remarkable guide to what they label the 100most important Supreme Court cases in our history. Students (and their teachers) should espe-cially profit from the multimedia blend of information and analysis. Inevitably there will bequibbles about some few cases included and, therefore, others left out, but if I am typical, mostlegal academics will agree with at least 90% of their choices, which is impressive indeed. Thismay prove to be a true event in legal education--and not only for law students. --Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Barnett and Blackman have made learning the basics of American constitutional law as painlessand as fun as possible. The case discussions are concise; the videos are full of fascinating picturesand historical details. If you think you might be interested in Constitutional Law, this is a greatway to get started. --Jack M. BalkinYale Law School
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- Publisher : Wolters Kluwer (3 September 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1543813909
- ISBN-13 : 978-1543813906
- Dimensions : 17.78 x 1.91 x 24.77 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 254,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 54 in Constitutional Law Textbooks
- 624 in Legal Education & Reference
- 791 in Constitutional Law (Books)
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About the authors
Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States’ Attorney’s Office in Chicago. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, Professor Barnett has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School.
Professor Barnett’s publications includes twelve books, more than one hundred articles and reviews, as well as numerous op-eds. In 2004, he argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2012, he was one of the lawyers representing the National Federation of Independent Business in its constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Recently, he appeared on PBS’s Constitution USA with Peter Sagal; and he portrayed a prosecutor in the 2010 science-fiction feature film, InAlienable.
He is addicted to Amazon Prime.
Josh is an Associate Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. Josh is the author of three books: Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare (2013), Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.
Josh was selected by Forbes Magazine for the “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy. Josh has twice testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutionality of executive action on immigration and health care. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Josh is the founder and President of the Harlan Institute, the founder of FantasySCOTUS, the Internet’s Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League, and blogs at JoshBlackman.com. Josh is the author of over four dozen law review articles, and his commentary has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, L.A. Times, and other national publications.
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As the cover blurb notes, this resource “will innovate how constitutional law is studied.” Both Blackman and Barnett are conservatives and members of the Federalist Society and originalists. We might differ at times on issues of the court and Constitution, but wherever you are on the ideology spectrum, I highly recommend this book. It is balanced, and describes the decisions in plain English and concisely, but you will learn so much. The book is especially effective when it discusses a series of cases decided over a period of time, such as Roe v. Wade and its subsequent cases.
I agree with the foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky: “Although many of the cases are controversial, [p]rofessors Barnett and Blackman present them in an unbiased and ideologically neutral manner.” The authors tie important cases and issues together, raise thoughts to ponder on the 100 cases they picked and boil those cases down to a few pages, explaining each decision in layman’s terms.
I have not gone online to watch the videos, but Blackman often posts his lectures at South Texas, and they are very informative , and I am confident that the multimedia will only enhance the value of this book. Given the lack of civics knowledge in the nation, we can all use a resource to help us think through that 232-year-old document, the U.S. Constitution. One can learn much about the guiding document and its interpretation by reading this excellent book.
While designed for law students and professors at law schools, it is a book that is digestible and accessible to everyone. Hopefully it will give us a more informed public. Boom to Blackman and Barnett.

Imagine listening to the video clip of this production with a constant "Wheel of Fortune" countdown playing in the background as you try to focus on what is being read!!!!
This is an awful poorly produce video/audio and it would be painful to listen to over 100 of the same audio backgrounds over and over. I've never experienced anything as bad as this production.
Great material if you can concentrate above the "Wheel of Fortune" audio track. The text is also great. Be forewarned and sample it if available.

Two quibbles: the promised videos require an access code, and mine has been slow to arrive. Also, the Kindle version has some formatting issues, most notably stray page numbers that don't match up with the Kindle's formatting.