Cases on Constitutional Law

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Cases on Constitutional Law represents a commitment to the case method as the ideal way of studying Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law as the ideal vehicle for mastering the case method. Students have the opportunity to read carefully selected opinions in full or near-full text, seeing the complexity of the cases, the mix of the issues presented, and the array of responses provided by the Justices. The book starts with the Constitution itself and two early cases that introduce and frame the issues of judicial power and Constitutional interpretation. From there, the book presents two major parts - one covering governmental power and the other addressing individual rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. Topics in governmental power include the powers of each of the branches of the federal government, the Court's role in resolving inter-branch disputes, and state-federal relations. Topics under the Fourteenth Amendment include Equal Protection, the state action doctrine, the incorporation debate, and the question of incorporating the Bill of Rights. About the author: Dennis Alan Olson, B.A. 1978, J.D. 1984, Brigham Young University, has been a law professor since 1986, having taught previously at Chicago-Kent College of Law, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, Texas Wesleyan University, the Appalachian School of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law, and Texas Tech University. He has taught Constitutional Law for over twenty years. Professor Olson served as the Founding Dean of the Appalachian School of Law, has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Legal Studies at Southern Virginia University, and was Provost at the University of Great Falls. He is now teaching at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law where he has been since 2007.