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LetMyPeopleVote

(163,886 posts) Fri May 30, 2025, 08:50 PM Friday

Tribe's 1978 "American Constitutional Law" is the law student "Bible"

I am dating myself but I still have a copy of this treatise. It got me through con law and the course of First Amendment law

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I showed this treatise to my older two children when they were in law school and there were amused

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Tribe's 1978 "American Constitutional Law" is the law student "Bible" (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Friday OP

I have this JustAnotherGen Friday #1

Why were your children amused? The constitution hasn't changed so it is not as if Tribe is now outdated... hlthe2b Friday #2

Ha, I have the first edition! Ocelot II Friday #3

I also have a First Edition LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #7

When Tribe wrote that horn book -- Tarzanrock Friday #4

I used Gunther's 10th edition, with a supplement for Con Law I. rsdsharp Friday #5

Looks like the current edition which no longer has Gunther's name on it -- Tarzanrock Friday #6

Chemerinsky is the new Tribe. Ms. Toad Yesterday #8

JustAnotherGen

(35,201 posts)

1. I have this

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 08:52 PM

Friday

Not an Attorney - but gift from my parents Junior year of college. I think its 1993. I was really into Con Law and Civ Libs.

hlthe2b

(109,948 posts)

2. Why were your children amused? The constitution hasn't changed so it is not as if Tribe is now outdated...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 08:54 PM

Friday

Perhaps the APPROACH to teaching the material has changed, but I really don't get what you are saying-- (and I'm feeling a bit insulted on behalf of Tribe, so can you please explain?)

I grew up with more judges, prosecutors and practicing attorneys of all "stripes" among my many uncles and oldest cousins and great uncles, so I remember fondly and learned a LOT from the spirited debates and discussions that were often far more academic than you might imagine. And, Tribe was among those heralded, so perhaps I am especially protective--despite my own black sheep status having gone into medicine, rather than law...LOL )

Ocelot II

(124,962 posts)

3. Ha, I have the first edition!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 09:06 PM

Friday

Published in 1978, the year before I started law school, so it was hot off the presses.

LetMyPeopleVote

(163,886 posts)

7. I also have a First Edition

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #3)

Sat May 31, 2025, 12:25 AM

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Tarzanrock

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4. When Tribe wrote that horn book --

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 09:40 PM

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Gerald Gunther was already publishing his 9th or 10th edition of his Constitutional Law Cases And Materials law book.

rsdsharp

(10,842 posts)

5. I used Gunther's 10th edition, with a supplement for Con Law I.

Reply to Tarzanrock (Reply #4)

Fri May 30, 2025, 10:02 PM

Friday

I figured I could save $60-70 (yes this was a long time ago) on casebooks when I took Con Law II the next semester.

But, nooooo. Had to buy the 11th edition WITH a supplement!

Tarzanrock

(933 posts)

6. Looks like the current edition which no longer has Gunther's name on it --

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 10:16 PM

Friday

only Sullivan and Feldman now sells for $305.00 on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-University-Casebook-Noah-Feldman/dp/163659364X/135-8441673-6531949?pd_rd_w=ETQUJ&content-id=amzn1.sym.ad06c767-be16-47a3-89d3-049eb4254aa7&pf_rd_p=ad06c767-be16-47a3-89d3-049eb4254aa7&pf_rd_r=N80JRNBSBCMASHYNJY1T&pd_rd_wg=6q6oQ&pd_rd_r=3e388709-128d-4d77-9dd2-72910b5c6e14&pd_rd_i=163659364X&psc=1

Ms. Toad

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8. Chemerinsky is the new Tribe.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sat May 31, 2025, 12:47 AM

Yesterday

We may not even have had Tribe in the library. Chemerinsky is the one I gravitate to when for a thorny problem and the one that one of the best professors read three times the summer before she taught Con Law for the first time in years.

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