Maggs and Smith's CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: A Contemporary Approach By Gregory E. Maggs and Peter J. Smith ISBN: 978-0-31418-995-0 This new casebook offers both print and electronic versions and strives to make constitutional law easily teachable. Click here to preview the second chapter. 2010 Supplement Available Faculty: Login or register keycode to view supplement on the Faculty Only page ABOUT THE BOOK This new casebook, suitable for a one- or two-semester course, strives to make constitutional law easily teachable. The authors have carefully selected and edited the opinions so that they are short enough to read but are more than summaries. Text boxes call the students' attention to important aspects of each opinion, and the book contains many points for discussion and executive summaries. The authors present a diversity of views on every subject, including originalist and non-originalist perspectives. Reflecting some of their own differences, the authors have written point-counterpoint discussions of many disputed questions. Upon publication complimentary copies are sent to our current list of professors teaching in the associated subject area.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gregory E. Maggs gmaggs@law.gwu.edu		Professor Gregory Maggs joined the Law School faculty in 1993, and became the senior associate dean for academic affairs in 2008. He teaches mainly in the areas of commercial law, constitutional law, contracts, and counter-terrorism law, and has written extensively on these subjects. Professor Maggs is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Following law school, he was a law clerk for Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Circuit Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also taught for two years as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law. His other past experience includes service as a special master for the U.S. Supreme Court, as a consultant to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr in the Whitewater Investigation, and as an assistant to Robert H. Bork in private practice and research. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Maggs has been an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve since 1990, and serves from time to time as a military judge hearing appeals from courts-martial. Learn more about Gregory E. Maggs
Peter J. Smith pjsmith@law.gwu.edu		Professor Smith is an expert in constitutional law, with a particular interest in constitutional interpretation and federalism. His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the UCLA Law Review, among others. He is also the author, with Professor Gregory Maggs, of a forthcoming casebook on constitutional law. Before joining the faculty at GW, Professor Smith was an attorney in the Civil Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the government in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. At DOJ, he defended the constitutionality of a number of federal statutes, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Food and Drug Modernization Act, in cases that ultimately were resolved by the Supreme Court. Professor Smith received his B.A. from Yale and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize for highest academic performance. Professor Smith clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Learn more about Peter J. Smith