SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 21 SPRING 1998 NUMBER 4 CASEBOOK REVIEW Maja Dagny Chaffe 719 Randy E. Barnett 721 E. Allan Farnsworth and W.F. Young 725 Robert A. Hillman and Robert S. Summers 735 Introduction .................................. Reflections Free to Choose ............................... A Casebook for All Seasons?Another Casebook Review ................... The Best Law School Subject .................. Reviews Casebooks and Constitutional Competency ....... David E. Engdahl The Right Books for the "Rights" CourseA Review of Four Civil Rights Casebooks CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS, 2d Edition. By Charles F. Abernathy. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1992. Pp. xxxiii, 753. CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION: CASES 4th Edition. By Theodore Eisenberg. Charlottesville, Virginia: Michie Law Publisher, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 1407. AND MATERIALS, Copyright © 1998 by the SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 741 1983 2d Edition. By Peter W. Low and John C. Jeffries, Jr., Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1994. Pp. 1, 928. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIONS: SECTION AND RELATED STATUTES, CONSTITUTIONAL TORTS. By Sheldon H. Nahmod, Michael L. Wells, and Thomas A. Eaton. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing Company, 1995. Pp. xvi, 431 ................................. Stephen Shapiro 789 Constance Frisby Fain 807 Edward Rubin 837 Richard B. Collins 853 Bryan K. Fair 859 Methodology for Teaching Constitutional Law CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: PRINCIPLES 5th Edition. By Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes, Wayne McCormack and Martin H. Redish. Charlottesville, Virginia: Michie Law Publisher, 1996. Pp. xlvii, 1542 .................... AND POLICY, Politics, Doctrinal Coherence, and the Art of Treatise Writing CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: PRINCIPLES By Erwin Chermerinsky. New York, New York: Aspen Law & Business, 1997. Pp. xxi, 1093 ................... AND POLICIES. Cases Versus Theory CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, 10th Edition. By William Cohen and Jonathan D. Varat. Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1997. Pp. xliii, 1732 ................. A Constitutional Law Casebook for the 21st Century: A Critical Essay on Cohen and Varat CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, 10th Edition. By William Cohen and Jonathan D. Varat. Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1997. Pp. xliii, 1732 ........................... Problem Solving and Storytelling in Constitutional Law Courses CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: THEMES FOR THE CONSTITUTION'S THIRD CENTURY. By Daniel A. Farber, William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Philip P. Frickey. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1993. Pp. viii, 1127 ........................ W illiam A. Kaplin 885 James Weinstein 907 Edition. By Ronald D. Rotunda. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1997. Pp. xix, 1184 ............... Thomas E. Baker 927 Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, & Tushnet's ConstitutionalLaw: An Inclusive, Scholarly, and Comprehensive Constitutional Law Casebook CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 3d Edition. By Geoffrey R. Stone, Louise M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Mark V. Tushnet. Boston, Massachusetts: Little Brown and Company, 1996. Pp. lxi, 1766 ............. Sharon E. Rush 973 Combining the Best of Gunther and Sullivan CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 13th Edition. By Gerald Gunther and Kathleen M. Sullivan. Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1997. Pp. xcv, 1553 .......................... Mastering Modern Constitutional Law MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 5th Notes on Notes 3d Edition. By Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Mark V. Tushnet. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Pp. lxi, 1766 ........ Margaret G. Stewart CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 979 The Quest to Find the Meaning of the First Amendment FIRST AMENDMENT CASES AND 2d Edition. By William W. Van Alstyne. Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 1156 ............................... MATERIALS, Mark C. Alexander 987 Theme and Variations STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, 2d Edition. By Robert F. Williams. Charlottesville, Virginia: Michie Contemporary Legal Education Series, 1993. Pp. xxxii, 1003 .............. ............... Hugh D. Spitzer and Charles W. Johnson 997 The Pedagogical Considerations of Using a Constitutional Law Textbook in Political Science CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND POLITICS, 3d Edition. 2 vols. By David M. O'Brien. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Vol. 1, pp. xx, 877; vol. 2, pp. xxii, 1520 ................ ChristopherP. Banks Essay Constitutional Conflicts: The Perils and Rewards of Pioneering in the Law School Classroom ............................. Derrick Bell 1003 1039 BOOK REVIEW Lessons from Reconstruction for Libertarians: Betrayal and Illusion in the Struggle for Real Equality No EASY WALK TO FREEDOM: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RATIFICATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By James E. Bond. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1997. Pp. 1, 295 ......................... Henry W. McGee, Jr. 1053 ARTICLES E-LAW4: Computer Information Systems Law and System Operator Liability ................... David J. Loundy Which Constitution? Eleven Years of Gunwall in Washington .............. ................ Hugh D. Spitzer 1187 1075 COMMENTS The Medical Savings Account Provision of the HIPAA: Is It Sound Health and Tax Policy? ............... Danshera Cords 1217 The Violence Against Women Act of 1994: Connecting Gender-Motivated Violence to Interstate Commerce .......................... INDEX TO VOLUME 21 ..................................... Judi L. Lemos 1251 I-1