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Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This seminar-style course offers students the opportunity to examine more closely one or more issues affecting reentry for individuals who have a criminal history. Designed for students with a particular interest in criminal justice policy, readings will come from a variety of sources, including case law, book chapters, policy reports, academic journals, and investigative accounts. Outside speakers will help ground classroom discussion in practice. Weekly attendance and active class participation, including introducing readings and formulating questions for speakers, is expected and will count toward the final grade. Areas of focus include barriers to employment and housing, the role of substance use and behavioral health challenges, recidivism and public safety, probation and parole practices, and criminal background checks . The course is open to LBJ graduate students.
Prerequisites: Students should possess a basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the role of reentry. Relevant experience could include enrollment in the Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, or Immigration Clinics, other coursework, or prior work or volunteer experience. Interested students must submit an email to the professor indicating their interest and relevant background, as well as a copy of their (unofficial) law school transcript. Contact the professor with any questions.
Note that this course has been retitled but remains substantively the same and students who have already taken Criminal Justice: Reentry will not be allowed to enroll.
Reentry Challenges & Practices
- THU 4:30 – 6:20 pm JON 6.206
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Same as LAW 296W, Reentry: Criminal Justice. Students may not use both titles toward the degree.
This seminar-style course offers students the opportunity to examine more closely one or more issues affecting reentry for individuals who have a criminal history. Designed for students with a particular interest in criminal justice policy, readings will come from a variety of sources, including case law, book chapters, policy reports, academic journals, and investigative accounts. Outside speakers will help ground classroom discussion in practice. Weekly attendance and active class participation, including introducing readings and formulating questions for speakers, is expected and will count toward the final grade. Areas of focus include barriers to employment and housing, the role of substance use and behavioral health challenges, recidivism and public safety, probation and parole practices, and criminal background checks . The course is open to LBJ graduate students.
Prerequisites: Students should possess a basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the role of reentry. Relevant experience could include enrollment in the Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, or Immigration Clinics, other coursework, or prior work or volunteer experience. Interested students must submit an email to the professor indicating their interest and relevant background, as well as a copy of their (unofficial) law school transcript. Contact the professor with any questions.
Note that this course has been retitled but remains substantively the same and students who have already taken Criminal Justice: Reentry will not be allowed to enroll.
Reentry: Criminal Justice
- MON 3:45 – 5:35 pm TNH 3.129
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This seminar-style course offers students the opportunity to examine more closely one or more issues affecting reentry for individuals who have a criminal history. Intended for students with a particular interest in criminal justice policy, readings will come from a variety of sources, including case law, book chapters, policy reports, academic journals, and investigative accounts. Outside speakers covering the criminal justice spectrum will help ground classroom discussion in practice. Consistent attendance and active class participation, including introducing readings and formulating questions for speakers, is expected and will count toward the final grade. Areas of particular focus will include barriers to employment and housing, mental illness and behavioral health treatment, recidivism and public safety, pre-release reentry programming, and criminal background check practices. The course is open to LBJ graduate students.
Prerequisites: Students should possess a basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the role of reentry. Relevant experience could include enrollment in the Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, or Immigration Clinics, other coursework, or prior work or volunteer experience. Interested students must submit an email to the professor indicating their interest and relevant background, as well as a copy of their (unofficial) law school transcript. Contact the professor with any questions.
This course will meet weekly for the semester. Field trips and other extracurricular opportunities will be available as scheduling permits.
Reentry: Criminal Justice
- WED 3:35 – 5:25 pm JON 6.206
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This seminar-style course offers students the opportunity to examine more closely one or more issues affecting reentry for individuals who have a criminal history. Intended for students with a particular interest in criminal justice policy, readings will come from a variety of sources, including case law, book chapters, policy reports, academic journals, and investigative accounts. Outside speakers covering the criminal justice spectrum will help ground classroom discussion in practice. Consistent attendance and active class participation, including introducing readings and formulating questions for speakers, is expected and will count toward the final grade. Areas of particular focus will include barriers to employment and housing, mental illness and behavioral health treatment, recidivism and public safety, pre-release reentry programming, and criminal background check practices. The course is open to LBJ graduate students.
Prerequisites: Students should possess a basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the role of reentry. Relevant experience could include enrollment in the Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, or Immigration Clinics, other coursework, or prior work or volunteer experience. Interested students must submit an email to the professor indicating their interest and relevant background, as well as a copy of their (unofficial) law school transcript. Contact the professor with any questions.
This course will meet weekly for the semester. Field trips and other extracurricular opportunities will be available as scheduling permits.
Reentry: Criminal Justice
- MON 3:45 – 5:35 pm JON 6.206
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 279M
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This seminar-style course offers students the opportunity to examine more closely one or more issues affecting reentry for individuals who have a criminal history. Intended for students with a particular interest in criminal justice policy, readings will come from a variety of sources, including case law, book chapters, policy reports, academic journals, and investigative accounts. Outside speakers covering the criminal justice spectrum will help ground classroom discussion in practice. Consistent attendance and active class participation, including introducing readings and formulating questions for speakers, is expected and will count toward the final grade. Areas of particular focus will include barriers to employment and housing, mental illness and behavioral health treatment, recidivism and public safety, pre-release reentry programming, and criminal background check practices. The course is open to LBJ graduate students.
Prerequisites: Students should possess a basic understanding of the criminal justice system and the role of reentry. Relevant experience could include enrollment in the Criminal Defense, Civil Rights, or Immigration Clinics, other coursework, or prior work or volunteer experience. Interested students must submit an email to the professor indicating their interest and relevant background, as well as a copy of their (unofficial) law school transcript. Contact the professor with any questions.
This course will meet weekly for the semester. Field trips and other extracurricular opportunities will be available as scheduling permits.
Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- THU 9:50 – 11:40 am TNH 3.114
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Accelerating technological innovation is dramatically altering the financial services landscape. By disintermediating and disrupting existing relationships, it is enabling the emergence of new business models, products and market participants. But what are the rules for this revolution? Or are there rules? How can lawyers counsel revolutionary entrepreneurs? How do regulators grapple with the associated challenges? This course will provide students a framework to consider these questions. We will use as our focal points two emerging and potentially transformational technologies: the development of blockchain distributed ledger technologies, and advances in the application of artificial intelligence to financial services. We will begin with administrative models of regulation and use that framework to critically assess the way that regulators have utilized existing authorities to respond to the myriad developments in these fields. Substantive issues will include anti-money laundering, securities and commodities regulation, consumer protection and data privacy. A consistent theme will be the challenges of developing appropriate regulatory responses to applications of rapidly evolving technologies, and, from the other perspective, that of counseling change agents in an ambiguous regulatory environment. This course is taught by a professor with a 35-year regulatory enforcement career that included positions as a senior SEC enforcement official and as a partner in a global law firm representing clients in defense of enforcement actions, and who has deep experience with these challenges from both perspectives.
Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- WED 9:50 – 11:30 am CCJ 3.306
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Accelerating technological innovation is dramatically altering the financial services landscape. By disintermediating and disrupting existing relationships, it is enabling the emergence of new business models, products and market participants. But what are the rules for this revolution? Or are there rules? How can lawyers counsel revolutionary entrepreneurs? How do regulators grapple with the associated challenges? This course will provide students a framework to consider these questions. We will use as our focal points two emerging and potentially transformational technologies: the development of blockchain distributed ledger technologies, and advances in the application of artificial intelligence to financial services. We will begin with administrative models of regulation and use that framework to critically assess the way that regulators have utilized existing authorities to respond to the myriad developments in these fields. Substantive issues will include anti-money laundering, securities and commodities regulation, consumer protection and data privacy. A consistent theme will be the challenges of developing appropriate regulatory responses to applications of rapidly evolving technologies, and, from the other perspective, that of counseling change agents in an ambiguous regulatory environment. This course is taught by a professor with a 35-year regulatory enforcement career that included positions as a senior SEC enforcement official and as a partner in a global law firm representing clients in defense of enforcement actions, and who has deep experience with these challenges from both perspectives.
Regulation of Lands and Buildings: Using Old Tools to Address the Challenges of New Climate Change Policy
- TUE, THU 3:45 – 5:00 pm TNH 2.138
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 396W
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Students who have completed LAW 391C, Land Use Regulation, will not be able to also use this course toward their degree requirements.
REGULATION OF LANDS AND BUILDINGS:
USING OLD TOOLS TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF NEW CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
This will be a course on land use regulation which will include platting, zoning, building permits, and other laws (mostly federal laws aimed at other than land use policy goals) as subjects. The course will include a significant section on the development process so that students might better understand the application of laws and policies to creating or renovating the built environment. This year, we will look at climate change policies at the governmental and private capital markets levels, and we will look also at the subject of if and how all the policy goals can be accomplished in a way that allows for affordability in the residential parts of the built environment. No textbook is used. The instructor provides the materials in pdf form.
Regulation, Power, and the Public Interest: An Exploratory Study
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Regulation, Power, and the Public Interest: An Exploratory Study
- WED 10:30 – 11:20 am TNH 3.129
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196W
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
In this 1 credit, seminar-styled class, we will explore the various legal approaches used to hold network industries accountable for providing public services, such as energy, telecommunications, and drinking water services. Some of these service providers are government-owned, and some are private companies (including public utilities). We tend to think of many of them as providers of essential or critically important services. After discussing some of the conceptual and theoretical writings on institutional challenges relating to the regulation of these powerful actors, we will explore a number of different areas of regulation, including the regulatory oversight of drinking water supplies, chemical manufacture, electric utilities, oil and gas, telecommunications, and e-commerce companies like Amazon. The structure of the seminar and readings will be established by the professor, but the fifty-minute hourly discussions will be led by student teams that rotate on a weekly basis. The final grade will be based on the quality of the student’s participation throughout the semester; the quality of the specific classes led by the student; five short blog posts on the weekly readings; and a ten-page paper (double-spaced).
Religious Liberty
- TUE 3:55 – 5:45 pm TNH 3.129
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196W
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This is an interesting time to study the law of Religious Liberty. The Supreme Court has heard multiple cases and issued a number of decisions in recent years construing the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment. Studying these developments is helpful not just to understanding this area of constitutional law, but also to examining the Supreme Court as an institution.
This class is an introduction to the law of Religious Liberty. It will also present an opportunity to develop appellate advocacy skills. Students will simulate oral arguments before the Supreme Court in significant religious liberty controversies, by performing in the role of both advocates and justices.
This course is open to students who have already taken a course in Constitutional Law. No other prerequisite is required. We will meet roughly every other week for two hours at a time. The course is graded, but students are welcome to exercise their pass-fail option if they wish. Grades will turn on the quality of in-class participation, both as advocates and as justices. Students will have the chance to learn the law of Religious Liberty from a seasoned practitioner, and to practice oral advocacy before a bench of your fellow students, as well as a federal circuit judge.
Each week, two to four students will be assigned a Supreme Court case to argue, before a bench comprised of fellow students who will serve as Justices. After each oral argument, we will discuss the issues presented in the case and raised during the argument.
Religious Liberty
- THU 5:00 – 7:00 pm TNH 2.123
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196W
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This is an exciting time to study the law of Religious Liberty. The Supreme Court in recent years has taken multiple cases to clarify the scope of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, and there is no indication that this trend will stop. Regardless of one’s underlying perspective or position, studying Religious Liberty is a way to understand not just that area of constitutional law, but also to examine the Supreme Court as an institution.
This class is an introduction to the law of Religious Liberty. It will also present an opportunity to develop appellate advocacy skills. Students will simulate oral arguments before the Supreme Court in significant religious liberty controversies, by performing in the role of advocates and justices.
This is a course open to students who have already taken a Constitutional Law class. No other prerequisite is required. We plan on meeting roughly every other week for two hours at a time. The course is graded, but students are welcome to exercise their pass-fail option if they wish. Grades will turn on (1) participation, including reliable attendance, and (2) the final exam.
Religious Liberty
- THU 5:00 – 7:00 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196W
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course meets over seven weeks: January 20, 27, February 10, 24, March 31, April 14, 21.
Same as Law 179M, Religious Liberty.
This is an exciting time to study the law of Religious Liberty. The Supreme Court in recent years has taken multiple cases to clarify the scope of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, and there is no indication that this trend will stop. Regardless of one’s underlying perspective or position, studying Religious Liberty is a way to understand not just that area of constitutional law, but also to examine the Supreme Court as an institution and to trace the development of an important body of law alongside developments in American and world history.
This class is an introduction to the law of Religious Liberty, and accordingly will begin with the historical and jurisprudential foundations of the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. We will then turn to the development of the doctrine in the United States, examining how and asking why the Supreme Court's analysis has evolved from beginnings of its jurisprudence until today. We will pause to consider in depth how Employment Division v. Smith has been applied in the decades since the Supreme Court decided it. We will also discuss the intersection of the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Free Speech Clause, and the Free Association Clause. Our course will conclude with analysis of the cutting-edge issues being litigated in the courts, and in particular in the Supreme Court, and we will provide some examples where students can dig more deeply into a record to develop the best arguments on both sides of actual cases.
This is a course open to students who have already taken a Constitutional Law class. No other prerequisite is required. We plan on meet roughly every other week for two hours at a time. The course is graded, but students are welcome to exercise their pass-fail option if they wish. Grades will turn on (1) participation, including reliable attendance, and (2) the student's choice of a short exam or a short paper.
Religious Liberty
- THU 5:00 – 7:30 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 279M
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught in person but with the option of remote participation via Zoom. Please note that this course might become online-only in the event that actual in-person attendance during the semester consistently falls below a threshold to be determined in the exercise of reasonable discretion by the instructor and the Student Affairs Office.
This is an exciting time to study the law of Religious Liberty. The Supreme Court in recent years has taken multiple cases to clarify the scope of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, and there is no indication that this trend will stop. Regardless of one’s underlying perspective or position, studying Religious Liberty is a way to understand not just that area of constitutional law, but also to examine the Supreme Court as an institution and to trace the development of an important body of law alongside developments in American and world history.
This class is an introduction to the law of Religious Liberty, and accordingly will begin with the historical and jurisprudential foundations of the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. We will then turn to the development of the doctrine in the United States, examining how and asking why the Supreme Court's analysis has evolved from beginnings of its jurisprudence until today. We will pause to consider in depth how Employment Division v. Smith has been applied in the decades since the Supreme Court decided it. We will also discuss the intersection of the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Free Speech Clause, and the Free Association Clause. Our course will conclude with analysis of the cutting-edge issues being litigated in the courts, and in particular in the Supreme Court, and we will provide some examples where students can dig more deeply into a record to develop the best arguments on both sides of actual cases.
This is a two-credit course open to students who have already taken a Constitutional Law class. No other prerequisite is required. In order to avoid the need for make-up classes, we plan to meet for about three hours at a time, but not meet one out of three weeks (not necessarily every third week, however). The course is graded, but students are welcome to exercise their pass-fail option if they wish. Grades will turn on (1) participation, including reliable attendance, and (2) the student's choice of a short exam or a short paper.
Religious Liberty
- THU 5:45 – 8:35 pm JON 6.207/208
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 279M
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
Description
This introduction to the law of Religious Liberty will begin with the historical and jurisprudential foundations of the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. We will then turn to the development of the doctrine in the United States, examining how and asking why the Supreme Court's analysis has evolved from beginnings of its jurisprudence until today. We will pause to consider in depth how Employment Division v. Smith has been applied in the decades since the Supreme Court decided it. We will also discuss the intersection of the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Free Speech Clause, and the Free Association Clause. Our course will conclude with analysis of the contemporary issues being litigated in the courts (and in particular in the Supreme Court), and we will provide some examples where students can dig more deeply into a record to develop the best arguments on both sides of actual cases.
This is a two-credit course open to students who have already taken a Constitutional Law class. No other prerequisite is required. We will meet for three hours at a time; accordingly, we anticipate that we will not meet one out of three weeks (not necessarily every third week, however). The course is graded, but students are welcome to exercise their pass-fail option if they wish. Grades will turn on (1) participation, including reliable attendance and (2) the student's choice of a short exam or a short paper.
Religious Liberty
- MON, TUE, WED 1:15 – 2:05 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 379M
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This is a survey course on issues of religious liberty arising under the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Test Oath Clause, state constitutional provisions, and modern religious liberty legislation. There are three principal sets of issues:
1) Government regulation of religious practice, including laws that make religious practices illegal, laws that make it difficult or impossible to physically create a place of worship, and laws that interfere with internal church decisions concerning employment, doctrine, property ownership, and lines of religious authority;
2) Government funding of religious institutions and especially of secular services provided by religious institutions, including such issues as school vouchers, faith-based social services, religious colleges and universities, and religious hospitals; and
3) Government sponsorship and regulation of religious speech, including such issues as school-sponsored prayer, student religion clubs, distribution of religious literature, municipal Nativity scenes, government crosses, monuments to the Ten Commandments, and so on.
Remedies
- TUE, WED, THU 10:35 – 11:47 am ONLINE
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 462L
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught entirely online via Zoom.
This survey course considers what happens in litigation after liability is determined. This is not designed to be a bar review preparatory course. Instead, we will discuss how courts weigh the available options for relief for claimants who allege that they have been wronged. Much of this course builds on what you learned about damages in Torts and Contracts. Other remedies will be less familiar. We will survey the principal remedies prevailing parties are entitled to receive. Those remedies are damages (compensatory and punitive); injunctions (preventive, reparative and structural); declaratory remedies; restitution; and the ways prevailing parties can enforce their judgments. We will constantly ask what a plaintiff can get, why plaintiffs can get a particular remedy, why they can't get more, and which remedy is best suited for particular plaintiffs. Intermittently, we will ask whether theories of corrective justice or economic efficiency better explain the remedies available to plaintiffs.
Remedies
- MON, WED, THU 11:50 am – 1:05 pm TNH 2.140
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 462L
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
Description
This survey course considers what happens in litigation after liability is determined. This is not designed to be a bar review preparatory course. Instead, we will discuss how courts weigh the available options for relief for claimants who allege that they have been wronged. Much of this course builds on what you learned about damages in Torts and Contracts. Other remedies will be less familiar. We will survey the principal remedies prevailing parties are entitled to receive. Those remedies are damages (compensatory and punitive); injunctions (preventive, reparative and structural); declaratory remedies; restitution; and the ways prevailing parties can enforce their judgments. We will constantly ask what a plaintiff can get, why plaintiffs can get a particular remedy, why they can't get more, and which remedy is best suited for particular plaintiffs. Intermittently, we will ask whether theories of corrective justice or economic efficiency better explain the remedies available to plaintiffs.
Reproductive Rights & Justice
- MON, WED 2:40 – 3:55 pm ONLINE
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 379M
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught entirely online via Zoom.
This course is about reproductive rights as they are currently defined by U.S. law. We will consider abortion, voluntary and forced contraception & sterilization, minors’ rights and education, public funding, pregnancy, technology, assisted reproduction, and surrogacy, the rights of underrepresented groups, and international law. The issues will be discussed from the perspective of social justice and include, human rights, and civil liberties as they intersect with reproductive justice, racial and environmental justice; LGBTQ liberation; freedoms of speech, religion, and association; freedom from illegal search and seizure or cruel and unusual punishment; rights to privacy, bodily autonomy, and equality; and birthing, parenting, and family formation rights.
Restitution
- A. Kull
- MON, WED 11:50 am – 1:05 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 382V
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
"Restitution" means the law of unjust enrichment. As a basis of liability, it is as fundamental as contract or tort. "You are liable to me, not because you promised to do anything, and not because you necessarily caused me any injury, but because (if the law did nothing) you would be unjustly enriched at my expense." Claims on this basis arise across the whole range of private law, with some public-law pockets as well (such as tax). This gives restitution as much variety as any other subject and makes it an essential part—frequently overlooked—of the analysis of many legal problems. Course materials will consist of the casebook recently edited by Dean Farnsworth and Professor Kull. (Anyone who is curious is welcome to come by Professor Kull's office and have a look.)
Restitution
- A. Kull
- MON, WED 11:50 am – 1:05 pm TNH 3.142
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 382V
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Same as LAW 362P, Restitution.
"Restitution" means the law of unjust enrichment. As a basis of liability, it is as fundamental as contract or tort. "You are liable to me, not because you promised to do anything, and not because you necessarily caused me any injury, but because (if the law did nothing) you would be unjustly enriched at my expense." Claims on this basis arise across the whole range of private law. This gives restitution as much variety as any other subject and makes it an essential part—frequently overlooked—of the analysis of many legal problems. Course materials will consist of the casebook edited by Dean Farnsworth and Professor Kull. (Anyone who is curious is welcome to come by Professor Kull's office and have a look.)
Restitution
- A. Kull
- MON, WED 11:50 am – 1:05 pm TNH 3.142
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 362P
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
Description
"Restitution" means the law of unjust enrichment. As a basis of liability, it is as fundamental as contract or tort. "You are liable to me, not because you promised to do anything, and not because you necessarily caused me any injury, but because (if the law did nothing) you would be unjustly enriched at my expense." Claims on this basis arise across the whole range of private law. This gives restitution as much variety as any other subject and makes it an essential part—frequently overlooked—of the analysis of many legal problems. Course materials will consist of a new casebook (not yet published) being produced by Dean Farnsworth and Professor Kull. Anyone who is curious is welcome to come by Professor Kull's office and have a look.
Restorative Justice
- N. Busch-Armendariz
- FRI 9:00 am – 6:00 pm SW 1.214
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 383Q
- Short course:
- 1/13/23 — 2/10/23
- Cross-listed with:
- Social Work
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This is a School of Social Work course cross-listed with the Law School.
Restorative justice is a social movement and set of practices that aims to redirect society’s retributive response to crime. Crime, in the context of restorative justice, is not considered just an offense against the state but rather is viewed as a wrong against another person and indicative of a broken relationship between the offender, victim, and community. Accordingly, restorative justice seeks to elevate the role of crime victims and community members; hold offenders directly accountable to the people they have violated; and restore, to the extent possible, the emotional and material losses of victims by providing a range of opportunities for dialogue, negotiation, and problem solving. This course provides an introduction and exposure to the principles of restorative justice and its application to the treatment of human suffering from crime and related social problems. It explores the needs and roles for key stakeholders (victims, offenders, communities, justice systems), examines the values and assumptions of the movement, including its spiritual and religious roots, and introduces students to some of the current programs at community, state and international levels. The framework of the course is, in part, based on social work values and the ethical decision-making process. Besides discussing its policy implications, students will evaluate the potential of restorative justice to address social problems marked by human conflict, oppression, power and harm, e.g. partner abuse, hate crimes. Finally, students will examine the empirical evidence for restorative justice, identify critical issues including gaps in theory or practice, and critique its integrity and overall direction.
Restorative Justice
- N. Busch-Armendariz
- FRI 9:00 am – 6:00 pm SSW 1.214
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 383Q
- Short course:
- 1/21/22 — 2/18/22
- Cross-listed with:
- Social Work
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will not use floating mean GPA
Description
Same as LAW 379M, Restorative Justice. This is a School of Social Work course cross-listed with the Law School.
Restorative justice is a social movement and set of practices that aims to redirect society’s retributive response to crime. Crime, in the context of restorative justice, is not considered just an offense against the state but rather is viewed as a wrong against another person and indicative of a broken relationship between the offender, victim, and community. Accordingly, restorative justice seeks to elevate the role of crime victims and community members; hold offenders directly accountable to the people they have violated; and restore, to the extent possible, the emotional and material losses of victims by providing a range of opportunities for dialogue, negotiation, and problem solving. This course provides an introduction and exposure to the principles of restorative justice and its application to the treatment of human suffering from crime and related social problems. It explores the needs and roles for key stakeholders (victims, offenders, communities, justice systems), examines the values and assumptions of the movement, including its spiritual and religious roots, and introduces students to some of the current programs at community, state and international levels. The framework of the course is, in part, based on social work values and the ethical decision-making process. Besides discussing its policy implications, students will evaluate the potential of restorative justice to address social problems marked by human conflict, oppression, power and harm, e.g. partner abuse, hate crimes. Finally, students will examine the empirical evidence for restorative justice, identify critical issues including gaps in theory or practice, and critique its integrity and overall direction.
Restorative Justice
- M. Armour
- FRI 5:30 – 8:30 pm ONLINE
- SAT 9:00 am – 5:30 pm ONLINE
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 379M
- Cross-listed with:
- Social Work
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will not use floating mean GPA
Description
This is a Social Work course, cross-listed with the Law School. This short course meets January 22 through February 20. This course will be taught synchronously online. Contact Social Work if you have questions about how the course will be taught.
Restorative justice is a social movement and set of practices that aims to redirect society’s retributive response to crime. Crime, in the context of restorative justice, is not considered just an offense against the state but rather is viewed as a wrong against another person and indicative of a broken relationship between the offender, victim, and community. Accordingly, restorative justice seeks to elevate the role of crime victims and community members; hold offenders directly accountable to the people they have violated; and restore, to the extent possible, the emotional and material losses of victims by providing a range of opportunities for dialogue, negotiation, and problem solving. This course provides an introduction and exposure to the principles of restorative justice and its application to the treatment of human suffering from crime and related social problems. It explores the needs and roles for key stakeholders (victims, offenders, communities, justice systems), examines the values and assumptions of the movement, including its spiritual and religious roots, and introduces students to some of the current programs at community, state and international levels. The framework of the course is, in part, based on social work values and the ethical decision-making process. Besides discussing its policy implications, students will evaluate the potential of restorative justice to address social problems marked by human conflict, oppression, power and harm, e.g. partner abuse, hate crimes. Finally, students will examine the empirical evidence for restorative justice, identify critical issues including gaps in theory or practice, and critique its integrity and overall direction.