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Understanding Constitutional Law, Fourth Edition, 2012

Understanding Constitutional Law, Fourth Edition, 2012

John Attanasio, the Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law and Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law at the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University;Joel K. Goldstein, the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law


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    Understanding Constitutional Law covers all of the central concepts and issues students encounter in any basic constitutional law course. Structure of Government issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization-Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment. Clearly written and authoritative, Understanding Constitutional Law addresses the central concepts and issues students encounter in most Constitutional Law casebooks. "Structure of government" issues revolve around the twin themes of federalism and separation of powers. Individual rights and liberties follow a concept organization - Due Process, Equal Protection, and First Amendment.

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    *Inclusion of the some new justiciability decisions of the Roberts Court;
    * Discussion of Raich v. Gonzales and its impact on the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause;
    * Discussion of United States v. Comstock and the Necessary and Proper Clause;
    * Discussion of Medellin v. Texas and the Treaty Power;
    * Discussion of Roberts Court decisions on dormant Commerce Clause and creation of new exceptions;
    * Discussion Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;
    * Discussion of Boumediene v. Bush;
    * Discussion of Central Community College v. Katz and its impact on sovereign immunity;
    * Discussion of Gonzales v. Carhart and partial-birth abortions;
    * Discussion of District of Columbia v. Heller and the Second Amendment;
    * Discussion of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. and Judicial Recusal;
    * Discussion of Lawrence v. Texas and homosexuality;
    * Discussion of Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and voluntary public school desegregation;
    * Discussion of Grutter v. Bollinger and affirmative action in higher education;
    * Discussion of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the USA PATRIOT Act?s effect on the First Amendment;
    * Discussion of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez and restrictions on religious student organizations receiving school fund;.
    * Discussion of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and their effects on campaign finance and political speech;
    * Discussion of Van Orden v. Perry and the display of a religious monument on public grounds; and
    * Discussion of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris and school vouchers.


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    Attanasio, John B.


    LL.M. Yale Law School; Dipl. in Law, University of Oxford, Oriel College; J.D. New York University School of Law; B.A. University of Virginia.

    Dean Attanasio co-authors a casebook and a treatise on Constitutional Law. He has published articles on constitutional law, jurisprudence, genetics, international law, and comparative law in the University of Chicago Law Journal, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the New York University Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, and Oxford University Press.

    He has taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, First Amendment, Federal Courts, Torts, Advanced Torts, and Employment Security. Before becoming Dean, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Notre Dame Law School. At Notre Dame, he also served as the Regan Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Civiland Human Rights. He has lectured to judges, parlimentarians, religious leaders, academics, and other audiences in Italy, Russia, the former U.S.S.R., the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Germany, Egypt, and Poland and to audiences from many other parts of the world. In 1990, he served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Moscow, lecturing to various groups including Deputies of the Supreme Soviet and the Moscow Soviet.

    He has received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award for teaching from students at Notre Dame; an honorary membership in Alpha Sigma Nu; and the Legal Education Award from his alma mater, the New York University School of Law.

     

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