This problem-based textbook creates for law students the experience that lawyers have when analyzing the constitutional issues involved in the investigatory phase of a criminal case. The problem approach engages students with the complex constitutional materials and enhances learning by offering the professor and the students the opportunity to apply the case law that is presented in each chapter. Each chapter begins with a layered, multi-issue problem presented in the form of a memo to a law clerk working in a variety of settings. The problem is followed by the relevant body of constitutional law edited to provide manageable material for law students, and includes many notes offering direction to the students as they develop analytical skills. To assist professors in teaching how to analyze the problems, the accompanying Teacher's Manual includes a detailed outline of an analysis of each problem in the casebook.
Myron Moskovitz formerly served as Moskovitz Appellate Team and Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law. He is now retired. Elizabeth Boals is the Assistant Dean of Part-Time and Online Education and Faculty Director of the Criminal Justice Practice and Policy Institute at the American University Washington College of Law.Amy Dillard is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.