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The Federal Courts and The Federal System

7th Edition
Richard H. Fallon Jr. | John F. Manning | Daniel J. Meltzer | David L. Shapiro
ISBN: 9781609304270
Subject: Federal Courts
Format: Print - Hardbound
Page Count: 1608
Copyright: 2015 | Status: In Stock
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The Seventh Edition of this classic casebook includes numerous revisions to enhance its teachability. The book’s depth of coverage and intellectual rigor remain unrivaled. In addition, each chapter has been carefully revised with an eye to making the material more accessible to students. A number of new introductory and explanatory notes help to frame the key issues raised by the materials. Moreover, the editors’ judicious revision and trimming of older material will permit assignments of manageable length, without sacrificing the scholarly comprehensiveness that has always been the Hart & Wechsler hallmark.

“This newest iteration is, for reasons I elaborate upon below, worthy of its own adoration—and should hopefully entice scholars who have long sought other teaching materials to return to the gold standard.” Read more.
--Steve Vladeck, The Keepers of the Federal Courts Canon, JOTWELL (September 22, 2015) (reviewing Richard Fallon, John Manning, Daniel Meltzer, and David Shapiro, The Federal Courts and the Federal System (7th ed., 2015))


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 07/10/2015

Richard H. Fallon Jr., Harvard University Law School

John F. Manning, Harvard University Law School

Daniel J. Meltzer, Harvard University Law School

David L. Shapiro, Harvard University Law School

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The Seventh Edition of this classic casebook brings it thoroughly up to date by as of December 31, 2014. Stern v. Marshall appears as the principal case in a tightly edited section on the permissible role of legislative (rather than Article III) courts. The materials on habeas corpus review of executive detention have been reorganized for enhanced teachability and now include Hamdi v. United States as a principal case. The editors have revised each chapter with an eye to enhanced teachability; their revision and trimming of older material will permit assignments of manageable length, without sacrificing the scholarly comprehensiveness that has always been the Hart & Wechsler hallmark.

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