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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTribe'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
JustAnotherGen
(37,555 posts)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
(112,803 posts)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
(129,047 posts)Published in 1978, the year before I started law school, so it was hot off the presses.

LetMyPeopleVote
(174,948 posts)Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)Gerald Gunther was already publishing his 9th or 10th edition of his Constitutional Law Cases And Materials law book.
rsdsharp
(11,794 posts)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
(1,250 posts)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
(38,282 posts)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.