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Const Law II: Civil Liberties

  • Semester: Spring 2013
  • Course ID: 381C
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Unique: 29345

Course Information

Registration Information

  • 1L and upperclass elective
  • Reversed priority

Meeting Times

Day Time Location
TUE, THU 9:05 - 10:20 am TNH 2.124

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Floating take-home exam

Description

The approach of this course will be to build bridges between the study of constitutional law and political theory. To that end, we will move back and forth between case readings and readings from political and legal philosophers. The emphasis, however, will be on the cases. Topics will include freedom of religion, freedom of speech, privacy issues regarding abortion and same-sex marriage, stem cell research and eugenics, discrimination and affirmative action. Political theory readings will draw from John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Sandel, and Michael Walzer, as well as from Hobbes, Locke and Mill.

Instructors

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