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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of the courts and the other branches of government in defining and enforcing constitutional values. Relevant readings are from philosophy, social sciences, and legal scholarship, as well as cases.
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3.00 Credits
Considers contract theories and principles emanating from classical and neoclassical law, legal realism, law and economics, and critical legal studies. Explores and questions tensions among theories, focusing on how they interact with norms, goals, and functions of contract and consumer protection law. Observes these tensions "in action" through volunteer work with Heritage House, a home for young women who are "at risk" and cannot live with their families at this time for different reasons.
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2.00 Credits
Explores the development of "Our Federalism", the relationship between federal and state governments, from the founding period of the US Supreme Court's recent New Federalism jurisprudence. Studies historical material, commentary, and case law, and addresses how federalism is defined; the values that federalism serves; the role of federalism in our interconnected, global society; the Supreme Court's boundaries of federalism; the direction of New Federalism.
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2.00 Credits
Focuses on issues of race reform law, in particular the group of issues dealing with Black Americans. (Students of all hues and persuasions are welcome.) Offers an interpretive or critical dimension, rather than a litigation-oriented one. Helps students understand how race reform law works and how attitudes and historical forces have shaped that body of law.
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2.00 Credits
Explores how theories of social freedom and self-governance developed in the United States. Analyzes the most controversial socio-legal issues as they relate to privacy, equal protection and other questions of substantive due process. Discusses recent trends in national security and information privacy to evaluate their overall relevance to civil liberties and nascent influence on the fundamental rights debate in the US and abroad.
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2.00 Credits
Explores dynamics that play out in the relationship between cities, suburbs, exurbs and other patterns of urban development. Explores the nature of local power, relations between local jurisdictions, and metropolitan and regional approaches to governance. Includes fiscal disparities, ethnic and racial segregation, sprawl and growth controls, affordable housing, transportation, and the urban/rural divide.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Studies historical, literary, and scientific materials and analyzes current problems of natural resource law. Requires additional field trip expenses. Recommended prereqs., LAWS 6002, 6112, 6302, 7725. May be repeated up to 5 total credit hours.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Same as LAWS 7128.
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2.00 Credits
Explores current issues in corporate and securities law, including developments in fiduciary duties of officers and directors, corporate governance, executive compensation, revisions to the model business corporation act, and state and federal litigation reform.
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2.00 Credits
Explores legal issues that judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys confront with the recent explosion in computer related crime. Includes Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, law of electronic surveillance, computer hacking and other computer crimes, encryption, online economic espionage, cyberterrorism, First Amendment in cyberspace, federal and state relations in enforcement of computer crime laws, and civil liberties online.
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