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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of many different areas of law - from the law of property and tort, to aspects of federal jurisdiction and legal ethics. It will introduce students to the court system and fundamentals of court procedure. It will develop and perfect student skills in writing grammatically correct and persuasive essays on legal subjects. The course culminates in a mock trial in which students play the roles of attorneys, defendants, witnesses, and jurors. Required for all Legal Studies and Criminal Law concentrators and minors. If possible, this course should be taken early in the student's course of study. ( Fall)
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Corporate crime is now a familiar item on the daily news. We read and hear stories of business corruption and of conspiracies to violate or evade the law in high places. What are the legal rules on business and ethics? What role do lawyers, judges, and the public play in ensuring that business is responsible, ethical, and fair? This course will examine a number of different issues in the law of business ethics and will consider a variety of legal, political, social, and policy ramifications of the current business ethics debate. Satisfies private law requirement for Legal Studies and Criminal Law. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the major crimes and defenses of contemporary American criminal law. Topics include homicide and murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, vehicular homicide, premeditation and intent, the insanity defense, conspiracy, and the death penalty. Attention is given to works of political and social theory on the cause of crime and the purposes of punishment. The course culminates in a mock murder trial in which students play the roles of attorneys, defendants, witnesses, and jurors. Required for Criminal Law concentrators and minors. Legal Studies concentrators/minors must take Criminal Procedure or this course. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews the rights of crime victims with an emphasis on women, children, and the handicapped in sex and domestic violence cases from pretrial hearings through trial and sentencing. Orders of protection, use of domestic violence history evidence, and cameras in the court room will also be discussed. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the stages of a criminal case. It introduces students to the distinctions between civil and criminal law and gives them a broad overview of the roles of defense attorneys, prosecutors, defendants, victims, and judges in the criminal justice process. Other topics covered will include bail, plea bargaining, the role of criminal juries, sentencing, and special problems of juvenile courts. ( Not offered in'07-08)
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3.00 Credits
A year-long capstone seminar for invited seniors (based on academic performance in the major), this is an intensive survey of the primary topics studied in political science - from political philosophy to American and/or comparative political institutions and development. Strong emphasis is placed on the writing of critical essays. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the relationship between religion and politics from the perspective of the politics of mass movements. It will pay particular attention to the role played by religion in the formation of political culture, the formulation and direction of public policy, the pace and scope of modernization and the distribution of social and economic resources. The course will also seek to outline the essential aspects of the relationship between religion and politics itself. This theoretical component of the course will be informed by historical and philosophical analysis; it will focus on the paradigm offered by the Greek Tragedian Aeschylus in his work, the Orestia. We will also consider the philosophical tension that exists between competing ideals of the democratic state and perhaps ideology. More importantly, we will look at what this says about the role of religion in shaping political ideology. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine several critical debates within the area of environmental politics. Issues concerning the needs of advanced industrial societies and those of the environment, environmental ethics, environmental activism, environmental protection and environmental regulation will be surveyed. The importance of environmental movements, how they are formed and whose interests are served by them will be examined in detail. Grass roots environmental movements will be studied, along with established environmental organizations, to determine the variety of resources open to those interested in environmental politics. Theories of environmental politics will be studied to provide a background and context for the on-going debates regarding "rights" and the "environment." Powrelations between advanced industrialized nations and developing nations will be examined in order to identify areas of commonality as well as those are contested. ( Not offered in Fall of 2007) (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on such topics as police searches of homes and cars, vehicular homicide, conspiracy, the insanity defense, the death penalty, the law of murder, and criminal law aspects of the war on terrorism. ( Fall) (Not offered in 2007-08).
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on all aspects of legal writing from proper issue formulation to creating cogent legal arguments and persuasive statements of facts. Case law and statutory material will be analyzed to illustrate various problem-solving techniques, culminating in the writing of a Memorandum of Law.
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