It is not confined to English law, but deals with the western tradition of law as a whole. It outlines the key problems of constitutional law and of the law of property, contracts, treaties, crimes, and torts. It deals with the importance in law of forms, procedures, and interpretation and explains how law relates to government, history and justice.
Constitutional law is a particularly restless field.
Recently, two Chief Justices of the United States have put their impress on two rather different Supreme Courts the Warren Court and the Burger Court, respectively. The foreword to the second edition is written by Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes. The future course of constitutional law on many of the controversial issues in this volatile field is not always clear. What we have attempted to do, therefore, is to summarize the direction of constitutional law on the basis of what the court has said thus far. As in the previous edition, we have tried to be fair to the various judicial positions particularly in those cases where constitutional ideology may be a significant factor.