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1.50 Credits
Appel This course examines the fundamental questions of postcommunist transformation. By investigating the political and economic transitions in several East European countries, including among others Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania, students will gain a better understanding of the radical changes that have taken place in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The course is divided into four sections: historical background, democratization and political transition, the political economy of market reform, and issues of national identity. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Kesler, Nadon A topic of enquiry will be chosen to reflect current challenges and concerns in the field of political philosophy. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Lofgren The development of American constitutional and legal institutions and ideas from the colonial period to the present. Focuses include the constitutional conflict with Britain; the framing and ratification of the Constitution; federalism in the early republic; slavery and sectional conflict; the Fourteenth Amendment and civil rights; total war and civil liberties; private law and public policy; and the political role of the modern Supreme Court. Also listed as History 126. Counts as a core course toward the government major. Offered every year.
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1.50 Credits
Elliott Examines the Supreme Court's adjudication of political rights disputes, e.g., voting rights, equal representation, and access to policy-making agencies. Gives special attention to the influence of the Court's "clientele" of thelected branches, appointing authorities, law reviews, etc., to techniques of influencing the Court, and to aspects of the decision-making process. Evaluates the impact of voting rights reforms on American democracy. Some constitutional law desirable. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Elliott Examines case and social-science texts in criminal justice, corrections, police practices, and equal educational opportunity to see how judges arrive at their concepts of social justice, and what impact their decisions have had on the lives of those they set out to affect. Some constitutional law desirable. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Martin This course examines the complex inter-relations between the political constructions of fictions and the fictive constructions of politics and law. Materials include serious and popular novels, poems, stories, plays, television series, and film documentaries, as well as Supreme Court cases, legislation, political speeches, articles on political and legal issues, funeral orations and memorials, and utopian literature. Authors include Kafka, Silone, Melville, Mailer, George W. Bush, Arthur Miller, Gogol, William James, Vince Flynn, Robert Lowell, Pericles, Karl Marx, and television and film writers. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Bessette Assesses the nature and adequacy of government's response to the crime problem in the United States. Specific topics include the extent and nature of the problem; the response of police, prosecutors and courts; the nature and extent of punishment imposed for criminal behavior; the philosophic basis for punishment; the role that public opinion does and ought to play in guiding criminal justice policy; and the performance of representative institutions in meeting the crime problem. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Thomas This course explores the historical and philosophical origins of the First Amendment's protection of speech and religion. It begins with arguments for liberty of conscience in Milton's Areopagitica and Locke' s ALetter Concerning Toleration, tracing them through the American Founders and the framing of the First Amendment, which embeds freedom of speech and religion in the Constitution. Alongside these thinkers, we will examine Supreme Court opinions that take up the meaning and reach of the First Amendment, asking if liberty of conscience is truly the "first" liberty in ourconstitutional order. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Miller Intensive analyses of major judicial opinions on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments, focusing on search and seizure, self-incrimination, right to counsel, and other procedural rights of accused persons. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Schroedel The purpose of this course is to explore whether and how gender matters in American law, and to examine the constitutional and statutory legal doctrines that apply in sex discrimination claims. More specifically, the course will (a) examine the ways gender has affected citizenship status; (b) address major constitutional themes that are invoked in sex discrimination cases and their evolution across time; and (c) consider how alternative schools of legal thought address these issues. Particular attention will be paid to employment law, reproductive rights, family law, and criminal law. Offered occasionally.
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