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This course will examine the interaction between the American social and legal systems in the treatment of race relations. The seminar will analyze major Supreme Court cases on equal rights and race relations with an emphasis on the historical and social contexts in which the decisions were rendered. The Socratic method will be used for many of the classes, placing importance on classroom discussion among the students and the lecturer. The goals of the course are to expose the students to the basis of the legal system and the development of civil rights legislations sharpen legal and critical analysis, improve oral expression, and develop a concise and persuasive writing style. Prerequisite: C- or better in Public Policy 113 or Public Policy 201 or Permission of Instructor. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course examines leading issues in bioethics, public policy, and law in relation to recent developments in medicine, public health, and the life sciences. After tracing the historical background of bioethical issues and law and deciding on methods of legal and ethical analysis, we will consider how issues in contemporary medicine, public health, and science challenge traditional ethical principles as well as existing law and public policy. Among other topics, we will explore the tension between traditional biomedical ethics, centering on individual autonomy, and the public health model, focusing on the common good. In addition to key issues involving the physician-patient relationship, reproduction, and the end of life, we will consider some or all of the following subjects: human research and experimentation; genetic testing, screening, and the use of DNA databases; genetic engineering and biotechnology; organ transplantation and allocation; ownership and the commodifying of life; bioterrorism and public health; and stem cell research and cloning. Other current issues that may be covered include the interaction of biotechnology and information technology, the green revolution and genetically modified organisms, and futurist issues such as the applications of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Recent and ongoing legal controversies will be closely examined. The course, which will proceed as a seminar, involves critical examination of issues in their legal, ethical, economic, political, religious, and cultural contexts. We will evaluate the individual, social, and ethical questions raised, and explore the feasibility and effectiveness of legal regulation. Readings will include classic expressions of ethical standards, legal cases, legislation, pertinent fiction, and timely articles and essays that deal with ethical and legal issues in their cultural context. An important goal of the course is to encourage each student to develop a method of analyzing bioethical problems from both legal and ethical perspectives. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
Treating people justly means treating them similarly when they are relevantly similar and differently when they are relevantly different. Accordingly, if public policy is to be just in its effects on persons, it too must reflect similarities and differences among them. Profound disagreements quickly arise though when we ask which differences and similarities are relevant when, where, and how. One apparent difference between individuals is gender. When, where and how is gender relevant to public policy This course will tackle this question by examining a variety of public policy issues which centrally involve gender in some important way. Among the issues which may be covered are gender discrimination, reproduction and public policy, alleged differences between male and female moral outlooks, and the roles that public policy can or does play in creating, sustaining, and changing gender differences and their significance. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course examines issues raised by bioterrorism and public health emergencies in the context of American culture, biomedical ethics, and public policy and law. We will consider how bioterrorism and public health emergencies challenge traditional political, legal and ethical principles centering on individual autonomy and civil liberties. The course is designed to provoke thought and discussion-legal and ethical-concerning pressing issues involving major public health problems facing the United States. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
This course examines legal and ethical issues raised by actual and threatened domestic and international public health emergencies. We will consider how public health emergencies caused by natural events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Asia tsunami, and the Pakistan earthquake, as well as real and potential pandemics, such as AIDS, emerging diseases, and avian flu, challenge traditional political, legal, and ethical principles that center on individual autonomy and civil liberties. Special emphasis will be placed on developing effective public policy to deal with events occurring in the U.S. and in the global community. Course readings will cover fundamentals of public health law and ethics as well as accounts of relevant events. Prerequistie: Public Policy 201 or Permission of the Instructor 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
George Orwell called political language "the defense of the indefensible," and yet democracies need a lively public culture of argument and debate in order to come to terms with complex issues, define values, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will explore the contemporary state of our political rhetoric in the United States, with a focus on the dynamic interactions of television, radio, print, and cyberspace. Students will participate in electronic discussions with peers across the country as they debate current issues generated by national election campaigns. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course sets secularism beyond its traditional association with the non- or anti- religious, and explores it as a family of ideas concerning the scope and limits of authority. Using resources and tools from the humanities and social sciences, and drawing from different historical periods and cultures, we will examine a variety of secular models of authority. These models pertain to political authority; the authority of science and other forms of expertise in education, medicine, law, and industry; and the exercise of authority in moral and aesthetic judgments. Prerequisite: C- or better in Public Policy 113 or Public Policy 201 or Permission of Instructor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
An examination of public policy-making in Western Europe, the United States and Japan. Emphasis will be placed upon state institutions, political culture and socioeconomic structures and their role in shaping policy. Prerequisite: Political Science 103, 106, or 208. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine basic theories of ethics (common morality) for the purpose of determining and evaluating the extent to which traditional ethical principles of rules govern American legal and policy decision-making. Although the orientation of this course is as more practical than theoretical, we will begin by identifying ethical or moral elements in our historical founding documents before going on to the main focus of the course, which is to examine the reasoning of those who make law and policy decisions, including judges, lawyers, legislators and other government officials and to discern the ethical parameters of major areas of law and policy. Prerequisite: C- or better in PBPL 201 or PBPL 202 or permission of the instructor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
The claim that judges and courts engage in policy-making and, therefore, in the political process, often appears to conflict with the idea that they ought to be above politics. A traditional view is that judges should identify pertinent law and apply it to the facts of a case. In this view, judges are supposed to say what the law is, not make law. In reality, judicial decision-making and judicial policy-making are coincident and inseparable activities. Public policy is established as the inevitable consequence of deciding disputes. Every decision rewards some interests and deprives others. This course considers the role of the judiciary as a political institution and examines and evaluates the wide range of circumstances in which judges and courts influence or create policy. Although some decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court will be considered, the seminar will examine the role of state as well as federal courts, and trial as well as appellate courts. Prerequistie: Public Policy 201 or Permission of the Instructor 1.00 units, Seminar
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