Kudos

I’ve just completed a semester of teaching Federal Courts, for the first time, at Harvard Law School (121 students) using your textbook. I wanted to thank you for producing such a wonderful and useful book that is accessible for students. It took me quite some time to decide which book to use given the well-known and notable alternatives. Clarity, not obfuscation, is what the students needed and you delivered. Kudos to you!

Best Regards,
A. Benjamin Spencer
Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor of Law | Harvard Law School
Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law | UVA School of Law

Admire[d] . . . as an editor

Just a brief note to tell you how much I admire you as an editor. I’ve gone through your fed courts supplement quite carefully, twice. An awfully nice piece of work.

Henry Monaghan
Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

Highest Recommendation

I’ve taught Federal Courts twice with Professor Siegel’s book, and it is outstanding and, indeed, very student-friendly. The introductions and explanations of doctrine are clear and concise, even in areas of complexity; case selections and editing are excellent; and the post-case notes and hypothetical problems add tremendous value for students. Highest recommendation!

Michael McGinniss
Professor of Law & J. Philip Johnson Faculty Fellow
University of North Dakota School of Law

I’m a very happy new adopter of your book.

I’m teaching Fed Courts for the first time this year. Your teacher’s manual was what “sold” me on picking the book — you did a brilliant job with it, and I appreciate the consistent format of each section (organized thematically, with case summaries and discussion suggestions). It’s clear that you worked hard on making the teacher’s manual a valuable resource (rather than just making it an afterthought, as many authors do). I appreciate the time and thought you put into it. Happily, some of your thoughts in it have caused me to rethink some of the course topics from a fresh scholarly perspective, and I’m enjoying that enormously.

The students are learning to slow down their reading because the cases are so tightly edited–it’s all important. I also like the inclusion of practice problems that are both simple and challenging, along with solutions in the manual.

I’m very glad that I chose your book for my first trip through this challenging course.

Best Regards,
Maggie Thomas
Associate Professor of Law
Liskow & Lewis Professor of Law
LSU Law Center

Nominated

My federal courts students nominated me last year for an outstanding faculty award. That, in my view, is a testament to the textbook and especially your teacher’s manual.

Leonard Feldman
Professor from Practice
Seattle U School of Law

Unbounded Admiration

I thought your textbook was excellent – and several of my students echoed this sentiment.  I also must express my unbounded admiration and eternal thanks for your Teacher’s Manual.  It is, in short, everything a Teacher’s Manual should be.  Without it I fear my students would have learned only a small fraction of what I hope they learned.  I know that I learned a great deal from the TM, and it made me look forward to teaching this class again.

Paul Yanowitch
Adjunct Professor of Law
Baylor Law 

Excellent text

I just finished teaching a summer semester of Federal Courts using your casebook, and I wanted to write to compliment you on authoring such an excellent text.I thought you did a marvelous job editing cases and writing clear notes that aid the students in understanding the material.

Best wishes,

Mike Dimino
Professor of Law
Widener University Commonwealth Law School

I’ve adopted your textbook for my Federal Courts course this semester

I’m writing to say that I am impressed and very glad I decided to try your book. You use many of the same cases as did my previous text, but I find both your editing of cases and the “connective tissue” of your notes and problems to be far superior. Just this morning, for example, I read the Chapter 5 materials, including the Osborn and Lincoln Mills decisions. I’ve always found those cases difficult to teach (and for good reason, as you would agree). Your presentation of them is excellent and will enhance students’ understanding, I am sure. And the teachers’ manual is terrific throughout.

Martha Dragich,
Professor of Law Emerita
University of Missouri

I recently completed teaching my second year of Federal Courts with your superior textbook.

I enjoyed the casebook

I enjoyed the casebook, and thought that the notes after each case were particularly helpful when trying to spot issues in the assigned cases. I thought that the historical/chronological examination of the evolution of the law in different areas was particularly helpful in understanding the case law.

Anonymous Student Evaluation (Fall 2017)

Best Textbook

“This is probably the best textbook I’ve read all of law school.”

“The textbook is also fantastic, very well organized, with details and notes in all the right places, and I appreciate that you made the supplement available for free online too.”

“Your textbook is very well written and easy to follow.”

Anonymous Student Evaluations (Spring 2021)