Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights (Examples & Explanations Series)

Book Synopsis: Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: Individual Rights, Ninth edition, by Allan Ides, Christopher N. May, and Simona Grossi, provides a clearly written, comprehensive examination of constitutional doctrine pertaining to individual rights. This problem-oriented study guide provides students and teachers with a highly readable and accessible study of constitutional law. Both this book and its companion volume, Examples & Explanations for Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, combine detailed textual material with real-world examples and explanations that apply the relevant constitutional doctrine to specific fact patterns. The text operates as a readable and citable treatise on the topics covered, and the examples and explanations serve as an elaboration on that text. Its unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy combines clear textual material with well-written, comprehensive and up-to-date examples, explanations, and questions. A favorite among law school students, and often recommended by professors, this guide takes students through the principal doctrines of constitutional law covered in a typical course that includes a study of individual rights.

New to the Ninth Edition:

• Inclusion of nearly 50 new Supreme Court cases
• Updated Examples & Explanations
• Expanded discussion of the freedom of association
• Richer treatment of the right to keep and bear arms

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with structure and reasoning behind the corresponding analysis
• An alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures
• Straightforward, informal text that is never simplistic, and quickly gets to the point in conversational style laced with humor
• Adaptability with all major Constitutional Law casebooks
• Authors with over 70 years of combined experience teaching Constitutional Law