Students who study constitutional law from this text will gain much insight into the thought processes of Supreme Court justices. This insight, in turn, enables students to more fully appreciate the current state of constitutional law and to anticipate the future direction of the Court in key areas. The authors accomplish this in part by less editing of the excerpted cases. Thus, students witness the evolution of constitutional principles through the justices’ own words. Lighter editing, and the inclusion of dissenting and concurring opinions, allows the reader to follow the logical steps of the Court’s analysis. Following an introductory chapter on the structure of the federal court system and judicial power, this traditional casebook thoroughly covers federalism, separation of powers, and individual rights including due process, equal protection, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.
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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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