[Before this title] I had yet to see a constitutional law textbook that clicked with me...For me, its primary strength is in the way it integrates law and politics. Too many constitutional law textbooks before this spent too little attention to the political factors that surround and shape constitutional law. It very self consciously treats both law and politics as significant dynamics and contributors to the evolution of constitutional law...Much of my graduate
training and scholarship since emphasized the interrelationship between political and legal institutions, actors, and dynamics. Politics shapes law; law shapes politics. As part of this, I appreciate that the text emphasizes that constitutional and statutory law is usually the result of lengthy debates
and that constitutional law happens in locations other than the Supreme Court."
Howard Gillman is Chancellor and Professor of Law, Political Science, and History at the University of California, Irvine.
Mark A. Graber is the Regents Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University.