This lecture explores the theoretical foundations of freedom of speech and how free expression doctrine has emerged in the United States. Though it focuses mainly on U.S. law, the course …
This course examines legal and policy challenges stemming from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. The objective of the course is to contextualize cybersecurity threats and responses to them in a national …
This course deals with the agency relationship and its consequences, focusing on such topics as contractual authority, vicarious liability, and fiduciary obligation. Using litigated cases, students will learn how to …
This class studies American efforts to prevent the private subversion of free competition. In addition to analysis of the statutes and case law, students consider the history of antitrust regulation …
This lecture course will explore the Supreme Court¿s explorations into providing constitutional protection for poor people during the 1960s and 1970s. It is part doctrinal analysis, part legal history, and …
This course will explore in detail some of the legal, theoretical, and practical issues raised by a debtor's financial distress. Principal emphasis will be on how the Federal Bankruptcy Code …
In this course, we will explore the constitutional rules that constrain executive actors when they investigate crime and prosecute criminal defendants. Specifically, we study the degree to which the Fourth …
The seminar will explore the issues entailed in the drafting and uses of a constitution. To what extent do constitutions reflect universal values (such as human rights), and to what …
In this course, students will identify the sources of low turnout and the political participation gap between groups in the United States, examine how the low participation rate and the …
This course examines the rules and principles that govern the resolution of multi-jurisdictional conflicts of laws in the United States. The central issue throughout the course is, simply, what law …
This course examines the two clauses in the Bill of Rights which define and safeguard religious freedom - the one barring laws "respecting an establishment of religion" and the other …
This course looks at the way the judicial system operates once criminal charges are filed. Topics include bail and preventive detention, the right to the effective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial …
This course examines the constitutional jurisprudence that regulates the government's investigation of crime and apprehension of criminal suspects. In particular, the course will focus on the doctrines by which the …
In this course laboratory, we will address problems of democratic representation. Studies have shown that marginalized groups and members of minority political parties are consistently under-represented in the democratic process. …
This course takes an interdisciplinary, comparative, and empirical perspective on the design and operation of courts as institutions.
This course focuses upon the principal federal statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, especially Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the …
In contrast to the traditional labor law course, this course is an introduction to the diverse body of law that governs the individual employment relationship. The course examines a selection …
This course will examine the regulation of financial institutions, with an emphasis on federal regulation of banking.
This course examines legal responses to work-related health and safety issues. The worker's compensation system and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) are studied in some detail.
This course explores normative and adjudicative systems associated with sports and games. These topics are intrinsically interesting, and they also cast light on legal norms and practices.